HILTON HEAD, South Carolina, Apr 3: Steffi Graf will meet Gabriela Sabatini and Jennifer Capriati

earned a showdown with Arantxa Sanchez Vicario after the top four seeds rolled into the semifinals of the 750,000 dollars Family Circle Magazine Cup tennis tournament on Friday, reports Reuter.

The top four kept all their quarter-final matches short on a cold, windy day, with each winning in straight sets.

Top seed Graf had the easiest time reaching the semifinals as she continued to finetune her clay court game.

The German world number two gave American teenager Chanda Rubin a 50-mlnute tennis lesson on the way to a 6-1, 6 2 win.

Graf, who had not played on clay since last July, has improved with each match.

Tm playing much better," noted Graf, who lost her serve just once in the match.

The first day 1 was awful. When you're playing your first clay court tournament you need a longer time to get into it."

Second-seeded Sanchez brought unseeded German Sabine Hack back down to earth with a 6-2. 6-2 thrashing.

Hack, who reached the final in Houston last week, had continued her upset run here by taking out two seeds in one day on Thursday. Hack run picked off fifth seed Manuela Maleeva Fragniere and 13th seed Gig Fernandez, before running into the fourth ranked Spaniard, who was just too much for her.

Fourth seed Capriati, who turned 17 earlier this week fought through a tough first set with Amanda Coetzer, before moving down the South

African in the second for a 6-4, 6-0 win.

The main thing was that I stayed patient the whole time,” said Capriati, whose impatience led to consecutive early round losses in her last two tournaments.

"When it got tight in the first set. I didn't just totally lose it and start going for it and try to end the game,” Capriati said

Sabatini had the toughest quarter-final opponent In sixth-seeded Bulgarian Katerina Maleeva. But the outcome was the same as the third-seeded Argentine cruised to a 6-4, 6-2 win to take her expected place in the final four.

This is the fifth Women s tournament this season In which the four top seeds safely reached the semifinals.

This is probably what should happen.” Sabatini said "It makes a good tournament.”