Sunday, May 26, 2013   

Li Na sends Radwanska home
(01-22 10:38)

China's Li Na stormed into the Australian Open semi-finals today with a 7-5, 6-3 win over Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska, who suffered her first defeat of the year.
Li became the first player to take a set off Radwanska this season when she edged a tight first set which saw seven breaks of serve, but she then lost the first two games of the second set to love, AFP reports.
However, Li then rattled off five straight games and saw off two break points when she served for the match at 5-3 to claim her sixth win in 10 meetings with Radwanska.
Radwanska had been on a run of 13 straight wins, including 26 sets unbeaten, after claiming tournament wins in Auckland and Sydney.
Li will face the winner of today's all-Russian quarter-final between world number two Maria Sharapova and Ekaterina Makarova in the last four.

   
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