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Serena Williams knocks out top seed

By The Associated Press

MOSCOW - Serena Williams and Elena Dementieva advanced to the final of the Kremlin Cup yesterday. Williams beat top-seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova 7-6 (2), 6-1, and Dementieva eliminated fellow Russian Dinara Safina 6-1, 6-0. "It was a tough first set," Williams Said. "I was playing a really good player and I was enjoying it. It was really cool."

In the men's semifinals, defending champion Nikolay Davydenko beat Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia 7-6 (6), 6-1, and Paul-Henri Mathieu of France downed Michael Berrer of Germany 7-5, 6-3.

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Williams put early pressure on the No. 2-ranked Kuznetsova, breaking her in the third game of the first set and then dominating the tiebreaker to clinch that set. The No. 7-ranked Williams then broke Kuznetsova in the second and fifth games of the second set.

"The match was decided in the first set," said Kuznetsova, the 2004 U.S. Open winner who was playing in her 300th professional match. "I failed to play right on several key points and allowed Serena to play too comfortably."

Williams, who hasn't dropped a set en route to her third final this season, last played in Moscow in 1997 when she lost in the first round.

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