Maria beat No. 1 seeded Elena Dementieva 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 in the Swisscom Challenge semifinals and extended her winning streak to 12 matches.

Maria moves into her fifth final of the year where she will play either Patty Schnyder of Swiss or Alicia Molik of Australia.



It is almost certain that Maria will qualify for the WTA Tour championships in Los Angeles next month which carry a one million dollar winner's prize.



The match lasted 118 minutes


Good luck in the...

Quotes of Maria Sharapova after her victory against Venus Williams in the quarterfinal.



"I played a lot of great points and I was able to pick up my game when I needed it and forced her to make some unforced errors."



What made the difference today?


"I thought I returned quite well, I put a lot of pressure on her serve and at the crucial points of the match I don’t think she made a lot of first serve in when she needed to and I took advantage of her second serv...

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No problems at all for Maria as she crushed Venus Williams 3-6, 4-6 today in 75 minutes in her second match in Zurich, she will play her next match against first seeded Elena Dementieva of Russia.


Maria was playing with supreme confidence, it's amazing to se here growing in this tournament.


Dementieva, Marias opponent for tomorrow, won earlier today from Ai Sugiyama of Japan in 3 sets: 6:1 5:7 7:5


Congratulation girl!



The match between Maria and Demen...

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