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Serena and Djokovic qualified for semis at Miami

Serbian third outstanding tennis player and well performer Novak Djokovic qualified for the semi finals at Miami of the ATP Masters 1000 hard-court tournament on Wednesday with a 6-3 6-4 triumph over France’s Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.

And In the women’s draw, top world rated Serena Williams misplaced the initial five games then rebounded to reach the semi finals.

Djokovic will now be in front of victor of the quarter final between second top ranked Swiss Roger Federer and fifth world honored American Andy Roddick. Djokovic, who had missed his last four encounters with the Frenchman, upturned that course in spite of getting treatment for obvious heat connected indications in the second set.

In the eighth game of second set Tsonga had two opportunities to smash Djokovic but couldn’t take advantage on either and the Serbian ruled out the match in just under two hours.

Djokovic, who described that he had been battling a bear ailment on Tuesday, said that the heat and the force of the match all exaggerated him. But he still showed accurate, influential groundstroke that had Tsonga on the self-protective from the beginning.

Previously, Serena Williams missed and lost the first five games then came up to achieve the semi finals, where she expected a probable matchup in opposition to her sister Venus. Serena defeated a miserable beginning to crush unseeded Li Na of China 4-6 7-6 (7-1) 6-2 in the quarter finals. Williams looks for her sixth Key Biscayne title, which would break the record she shares with Steffi Graf.

The three time champion Venus Williams was to countenance Iveta Benesova of the Czech Republic in the last of the quarter-finals afterward on Wednesday. The other one semi-final on Thursday will be played No.8-seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova and No.11 Victoria Azarenka. Williams was on the edge of being distress, but in the essential second set, Li unsuccessful to change all six of her break point chances. The last came at 5-all and Williams got it with a service winner.

Li build effects simple for Williams in the tiebreaker by devoting six voluntary faults. As the third set began to slip away from Li, she displayed her disappointment by slamming a ball in opposition to the backstop on the far end of the court. Then she twice faulted on break point to drop behind 2-1. Williams achieved and won the next three games at love and ruled out the conquest with a service winner.