Schiavone Advances to Semis at Prague Open
July 17, 2009 by Jeanne Dupuis
Filed under Tennis
Francesca Schiavone has advanced to the semifinals at the 2009 Prague Open. The top-seeded Italian who turned 29 last month easily beat Ukranian Kateryna Bondarenko 6-1, 6-1 today.
Schiavone made it to the quarterfinals at Wimbledon this year before being eliminated by Russia’s Elena Dementieva. The 30th-ranked athlete will battle Spain’s Carla Suarez Navarro or Timea Bacsinszky of Switzerland in the semis tomorrow.
Other results from the day include the 7-5, 5-7, 7-5 victory of second-seeded Sybille Bammer of Austria over the Czech Republic’s seventh-seeded Lucie Hradecka. Bammer will move on to play third-seeded Iveta Benesova of the Czech Republic.
image: TSN
