Serena Williams Defeated Maria Sharapova By 6-1,6-3 To Go through Semi-Finals along with Along with Top-Ranked Victoria Azarenka. Williams sealed her seventh straight win over Sharapova on the tournament's controversial blue clay court. The American No9 seed opened strongly, hitting six aces and earning two early breaks to take the first set against the No2 ranked Sharapova.The Russian showed some fight and broke for love to even the score at 2-2 in the second set but she quickly squandered her break with a costly sixth double fault.Azarenka overcame a shaky start to beat the French Open champion Li Na 3-6, 6-3, 6-3. After struggling with her serve, last year's runner-up found her stride and broke her Chinese opponent's first two service games of the second set on the way to pulling level at a set each.The Belarusian, who has won four titles this season, then used her powerful groundstrokes to take a 4-0 lead in the decider before holding off Li's late charge."It wasn't very much to do with confidence," said Azarenka. "I was thinking I had to change and come up with things to surprise her because she was playing unbelievable in the first set. I had to turn something around. I don't know if it was confidence, or belief, or whether it was just pushing myself to be better."Azarenka also gave her views on the blue clay surface, an innovation at this year's tournament, which Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal severely criticised on Thursday."I'm not a fan of this court, that's for sure," she said. "But I don't want to sit here and complain about it. Nothing is going to change this year. We can talk after the tournament about maybe possible changes or something."
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