Friday
At Foro Italico
Rome
Purse: $2 million (Premier)
Surface: Clay-Outdoor
Singles
Semifinals
Svetlana Kuznetsova (7), Russia, def. Victoria Azarenka (6), Belarus, 6-2, 6-4.
Dinara Safina (1), Russia, def. Venus Williams (4), United States, 6-7 (3), 6-3, 6-4.
Doubles
Semifinals
Hsieh Su-wei, Taiwan, and Peng Shuai (7), China, def. Ipek Senoglu, Turkey and Yaroslava Shvedova, Kazakhstan, 6-4, 3-6, 10-2 tiebreak.
Daniela Hantuchova, Slovakia, and Ai Sugiyama (5), Japan, def. Nuria Llagostera Vives and Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez (4), Spain, 6-4, 6-3.