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End of Winning Spree for Mauresmo

by Ingrid Diaz on February 24th, 2006

Yes, that’s right. Mauresmo finally lost! To Russia’s Svetlana Kuznetsova in the quarterfinals of the Dubai Women’s Open. Final score: 7-6 6-4.

Unfortunately for Amelie Mauresmo, the loss means that she won’t be taking Kim Clijsters’ position as the number one ranked women’s tennis player. Somewhere, Kim is cheering, I’m sure.

Meanwhile, in the other quaterfinal matches:

Russian third seed Maria Sharapova gained revenge for her recent defeat by Martina Hingis in Tokyo, beating the Swiss 6-3 6-4, while Justine Henin-Hardenne defeated Francesca Schiavone of Italy 6-4 7-6.

American Lindsay Davenport came from a set down to beat unseeded Russian Maria Kirilenko 4-6 6-2 6-3.

Which means for the semi-finals we’ll be seeing Kuznetsova playing against Henin-Hardenne and Sharapova playing against Davenport. Hope they got enough practice at Ski Dubai!

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