STRASBOURG, France (AP) — Three-time former champion Anabel Medina Garrigues reached the semifinals of the Strasbourg International on Thursday by defeating Mirjana Lucic of Croatia 6-4, 6-4.
The seventh-seeded Medina Garrigues is chasing her second title of the season after winning last month’s Estoril Open. The Spaniard will play either top-seeded Marion Bartoli of France or eighth-seeded Lucie Hradecka of the Czech Republic.
Sixth-seeded Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia also advanced after beating fourth-seeded Nadia Petrova of Russia 6-4, 6-2.
Hantuchova faces either second-seeded Andrea Petkovic or fifth-seeded Maria Kirilenko.
