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Henin halts Capriati

Tennis

AFP, Berlin
Jennifer Capriati's hopes of regaining the world number one ranking were dashed on Saturday after Belgium's Justine Henin knocked the top seed out of the German Open.
A quiet smile and a clenched Henin fist told the story as Capriati, who beat Henin in the semi-finals here 12 months ago, failed to knock Venus Williams off her perch.
Instead the Australian Open champion lost further ground as fifth seed Henin scored a 5-7, 6-2, 6-1 win in a rain-interrupted encounter to reach the final of this 1.244-
million-dollar WTA event.
Henin, chasing her fifth career title, now faces either fourth-seeded compatriot Serena Williams or unseeded Israeli Anna Smashnova in Sunday's showdown after the rainbreak turned the match on its head.
Serena has lost just one match since succumbing to Venus in the US Open final, the quarter-final of the Family Circle Cup where Patty Schnyder got the better of her.
But on Saturday's evidence Henin is more than ready to lock horns.
Capriati, who was a semi-finalist here aged 15 on her first visit in 1991, ended Henin's dream here last year when the Belgian teen
retired with a twisted ankle, before taking revenge in a titanic Wimbledon semi where she ended the American's run of 19 straight Grand Slam singles victories.
This time round the 19-year-old Belgian found herself 0-3 down before getting into gear and levelling at 3-3.
Serving for the set Henin promptly spurned three set points and, a double fault later, it was Capriati who broke for 5-5 before a renewed break handed the favourite the set in 52 minutes.
Games went with serve at the start of the second set before the skies opened at 2-2.
But when the pair returned Henin reeled off four straight games to level the contest, putting up a barrage of her trademark singlehanded backhands.
Suddenly Capriati was a shadow of her usual self, serving up two double faults at the most inopportune moments as Henin streaked 41 clear and then secured the win when Capriati drove long having staved off two match points.
Venus remains top of the pile for now and former world number one Martina Hingis, absent through a foot strain this week, will drop from fourth to seventh in Monday's rankings.
Capriati's quarter-final victim Sandrine Testud will move into the top 10, displacing last year's Berlin champion Amelie Mauresmo as French number one.
Mauresmo withdrew from her quarter-final against Serena with a neck strain and the American now has every incentive to go on and land the title as that would take her to a career-high ranking of third, ousting Belgium's Kim Clijsters.