PONTE VEDRA, Fla. (AP) - After winning only one game in the first set and trailing 5-3 in the second, Caroline Wozniacki was thinking about the next tournament on the WTA Tour stop in Charleston, S.C.
However, she still has one more match at the MPS Group Championships after rallying past fourth-seeded Elena Vesnina 1-6, 7-6 (4), 6-4 in the semifinals Saturday.
"I thought I was out already," Wozniacki said. "I thought I was headed to Charleston. I said 'keep fighting, do what you can,' but it didn't look like my day at the office."
Wozniacki, the top seed and defending champion, will face Olga Govortsova in Sunday's final. Govortsova defeated third-seeded Dominika Cibulkova 6-4, 7-5 in the other semi.
Querrey, Chela advance to clay-court final
HOUSTON (AP) - Sam Querrey took special pleasure in beating fellow American Wayne Odesnik to reach the finals of the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships on Saturday.
Querrey overcame an inconsistent serve for a 7-6 (4), 1-6, 7-5 victory and then resumed his criticism of Odesnik, who pleaded guilty on March 26 of taking vials of human growth hormone into Australia.
After the match, Querrey said Odesnik should make amends with tennis.
"I think you have to wait and find the verdict at the end of it all," Querrey said. "Yeah, he should apologize."
Querrey will go for his second title this year Sunday against Argentina's Juan Ignacio Chela, who beat sixth seeded fellow countryman Horacio Zeballos 7-5, 6-2.
ATP World Tour U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships Results
Saturday At River Oaks Country Club
Purse: $607,200 (WT250)
Surface: Clay-Outdoor
Singles: Semifinals
Sam Querrey (3), United States, def. Wayne Odesnik, United States, 7-6 (3), 1-6, 7-5.
Juan Ignacio Chela, Argentina, def. Horacio Zeballos (6), Argentina, 7-5, 6-2. Doubles
Championship
Bob and Mike Bryan (1), United States, def. Stephen Huss, Australia, and Wesley Moodie (3), South Africa, 6-3, 7-5.
Saturday At Sawgrass Country Club
Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.
Purse: $220,000 (Intl.)
Surface: Green Clay-Outdoor
Singles: Semifinals
Olga Govortsova, Belarus, def. Dominika Cibulkova (3), Slovakia, 6-4, 7-5.
Caroline Wozniacki (1), Denmark, def. Elena Vesnina (4), Russia, 1-6, 7-6 (4), 6-4.
Doubles: Semifinals
Bethanie Mattek-Sands, United States, and Yan Zi (1), China, def. Andrea Hlavackova, Czech Republic, and Olga Savchuk, Ukraine, 5-7, 6-1, 10-4 tiebreak.
Chuang Chia-jung, Taiwan, and Peng Shuai (2), China, def. Sarah Borwell, Britain, and Raquel Kops-Jones, United States, 6-3, 6-7 (5), 10-6 tiebreak.