Dushevina, Bacsinszky advance to Istanbul Cup semifinals

Dushevina, Bacsinszky reach Istanbul semis

ISTANBUL — Fifth-seeded Vera Dushevina reached the semifinals of the Istanbul Cup Friday by routing No. 3-seeded Anabel Medina Garrigues of Spain 6-1, 6-2.

Dushevina won 16 of 19 points on Medina Garrigues’ second serve and broke her opponent five times. The Russian will next play Timea Bacsinszky of Switzerland, who needed just 50 minutes to beat Urszula Radwanska of Poland 6-0, 6-1.

In the other semifinal, Andrea Petkovic of Germany will play eighth-seeded Lucie Hradecka of the Czech Republic.

Petkovic beat No. 7 of Olga Govortsova of Belarus 6-3, 6-3, while Hradecka ousted Poland’s Marta Domachowska 6-1, 5-7, 6-4.

Top-seeded Vera Zvonareva of Russia and No. 2 Patty Schnyder of Switzerland were knocked out in the first round.