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Sanchez scrambles in semis
NEW YORK. Nov 20: Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, nearly on the verge of elimination, rallied Friday nl-
ghi to defeat Jana Novotna and grab a spot in the semifinals of the Virginia Slims Championships. reports AP.
Getting stronger and more determined the longer they played, the second-seeded Spaniard toppled Novotna 6-7(2-7). 7 6(7-2). 6-4 in a match that took 2 hours. 57 minutes at Madison Square Garden.
Sanchez Vicario will play Mary Pierce in Saturday’s second semifinals. The unseeded Pierce reached the semifinals in her first trip to this season-ending tournament by upsetting four-time winner Martina Navratilova on Thursday night.
The first semifinal has topseeded Steffi Graf against No.8 Anke Huber. In Friday's first match. Huber made it an allGerman semifinal by defeating fourth-seeded Conchita Martinez 6-3. 6-3.
It was a rare victory over Novotna for Sanchez Vicario. who lias lost eight of 12 career
meetings. But this one was sweeter, considering from how far back she had to come.
Although Novotna, one of the best all-court players on the women's tour, and Sanchez Vicario battled evenly through the first two sets, that parity was only on the scoreboard. Novotna appeared to be In control while Sanchez Vicario struggled.
Appearances were deceiving.
There were four service breaks in the first set and two more in the second. Each time one broke serve, the other broke right back.
Novotna controlled the first-set tiebreak, but it was Sanchez Vicario who was. starting to control the match.
Novotna had to fight through five deuces to hold serve in the fifth game of the middle set. She was taken to deuce again In her next service game, but still managed to hold.
The first four points in the second-set tiebreak went against serve. That was when the Spanish right-hander took control.
She won the next five points to capture the tiebreak, then took the lead in the third set for good by breaking Novotna In the seventh game, the final point a forehand cross-court passing shot that ticked off Novotna's racket.
Huber and Martinez engaged In long baseline engagements. sending powerful groundstrokes to the outer edges of the court. If the points were long, the games were longer as the two evenly matched competitors kept battling to deuce.
Martinez had the bigger serve, a stroke that would have worked perfectly to set up a serve-afid-volley game. Instead, the Spaniard retreated to her regular spot behind the baseline and worked her way Into the point. Huber retaliated by slamming her grunt-assisted strokes deep Into the corners, keeping Huber on the run
The match was halted
briefly In the second set when Martinez asked for an received medical attention when her back muscles tightened up. After a brief massage, the match resumed.
The loss ended the best year for Martinez, who had victories over Gabriela Sabatini. Navratilova. Mary Joe Fernandez and Graf, the latter Sunday In the final of the .Virginia Slims of Philadelphia.
"I have a lot of confidence when I play against her.’ said Huber, who has never lost to Martinez in four meetings. "It makes.it a lot easier."
For Huber, making her first appearance in Madison Square Garden, it is the best she has done In a major tournament since reaching the 'semifinals of the French Open in May where she won only two games in losing to Graf.
“In the beginning I was too nervous," Huber said. T was doing everything too fast. My serve was not good. After that. 1 just tried to play my game."
Sunday's winner of this dlrs 3.5■million tournament will receive . dlrs 250.000. with dlrs 120.000 going to the run-nerup.