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Spirlea, Novotna in semis
NEW YORK, Nov 22: A cool and calm Irina Spirlea survived -an upset bid by Mary Joe Fernandez to Join Jana Novotna in the semifinals of the season-ending Chase Championships, reports AP.
Spirlea. the No. 8 seed from Romania, fought off three match points In 10th game of the match before defeating Fernandez 5-7, 6-2. 7-5 Friday night at Madison Square Gar-den.
Earlier, the second-seeded Novotna ousted Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario 6-4, 3-6, 6-1.
Spirlea^ and Novotna will meet It? one of Saturday'ssemi-taies on her French Fed Cup teammate, Nathalie Tauziat.In the other.
Spirlea probably should have wrapped up the victory long before she did. two hours
and seven minutes after they began play. The Romanian, best known for her bump with Venus Williams at the US Open, led 4-1 in the opening set, only to have Fernandez, a right-hander from Miami, win six of the next seven games.
The eventual winner had four-game runs in both the second and third sets. In the middle set. the two held serve through the first four games before Spirlea leveled the match.
Fernandez took a 5-3 lead in the third set and appeared ready to continued her remarkable run through a sea of seeded players. After Spirlea held in the ninth game, pulling to 5-4. Ftrnahdez, the last remaining American ,in the tournament, wqn the first two points.
On the nekt point, she attempted to serve and volley, moving to the net behind a strong serve. But Spirlea rifled the return right at Fernandez's
body, and she ended up netting the volley.
Still, she reached match point at 40-30, then two more in the next four points. Each time. Spirlea came up with a winner.
She wasn't so iggressi-. e so I took the chances. Spirlea said. "I was pretty cool.'
The steam went out of Fernandez's game after that, winning only one point in the next two games.
In the night’s first match. Tauziat and Alexandra Fusai of France advanced to the doubles final when Manon Bollegraf of the Netherlands suffered a pulled calf muscle in her left leg. and she and partner Nicole Arendt of the I ■ ted States, were forced to r .' t with the score at 6-3, 3-2.