With
Lindsay Davenport and
Maria Sharapova idle this week, top seed
Kim Clijsters continued her bid Friday toward staying in the race for the year-end No. 1 ranking, defeating unseeded German
Julia Schruff 6-2, 6-3 to advance into the semifinals at the WTA stop in Hasselt.
In the semifinals the Belgian will face No. 4 seed
Dinara Safina, who came back from a set down to edge No. 8
Katarina Srebotnik 7-6 in the third.
Also into the semis were (3)
Francesca Schiavone (d. Stosur), and unseeded Dutch teen
Michaella Krajicek (d. (2) Dechy).
Saturday's match-ups are (3) Schiavone vs. Krajicek (first career meeting) and (1) Clijsters vs. (4) Safina (the Belgian has won all four meetings without dropping a set).
