Maria Sharapova
will shoot for her first U.S. Open title on Saturday
after upsetting world number 1 player Amelie Mauresmo in
three sets in the semifinals. Sharapova will face
Justine Henin-Hardenne, who reached her fourth grand
slam final of the year by beating 19th-seeded Serbian
Jelena Jankovic 4-6, 6-4, 6-0 on
Friday.
Third-seed
Sharapova struck 20 winners in the day's later match, double
the number from Mauresmo, to win 6-0, 4-6,
6-0 and reach the second grand slam final of
her career. Frenchwoman Mauresmo, the openly lesbian
27-year-old champion of Wimbledon and the Australian Open,
played a miserable first set and won just seven points
in the final frame.
The top seed
secured her only service break in the last game of the
second set but was unable to keep the momentum going. "It
was tough to get broken in that last game of the
second set," said the 19-year-old Sharapova, who will
move up to number 1 in the world if she beats
Henin-Hardenne. "She just played some good tennis. But I
hung in there. I went to the changeover and thought,
'It's all right. It's one set all. You haven't lost
the match yet. Now it's equal.' So I just kept going."
(Reuters)
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