Ivanovic faced Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, who was playing her first career semifinal, and won in straight sets 62 63.
"She's had a great run here," Ivanovic said of Pavlyuchenkova. "She can be very dangerous. She beat lots of Top 10 players here. She's very young and still has lots she can improve, so she'll be even tougher in the future, for sure."
Zvonareva easily won her match to doubles partner Victoria Azarenka, who took out No. 1 seed Dinara Safina, 63 63.
"She's a good server. I was concentrating on keeping my returns in as much as possible," Zvonareva said. "I had a few double faults and a few mistakes here and there, but I was going for my shots so I was happy to win this one."
"It wasn't much of an experience. It was just a wasted match," Azarenka said. "I didn't play the game I needed to play. It was only unforced errors for me. Vera played well, but I didn't do even 10% of my game."
Friday, March 20, 2009
Singles - Semifinals
(4) Vera Zvonareva (RUS) d. (8) Victoria Azarenka (BLR) 63 63
(5) Ana Ivanovic (SRB) d. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) 62 63
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