By BETH HARRIS, AP Sports Writer<\/p>\n\n\n\n
MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. (AP) – Monica Seles vanquished Martina Hingis for the second straight week, winning 6-3, 1-6, 6-4 in the estyle.com Classic semifinals Saturday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lindsay Davenport never faced a break point on her serve in beating fifth-seeded Nathalie Tauziat 6-1, 6-2 to reach the final against Seles, who lost to Davenport two weeks ago in the semifinals at Stanford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Seles has endured a tougher draw than Davenport this week, including playing three consecutive three-set matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was Seles’ fourth victory over a top-10 player in two weeks. Besides beating top-ranked Hingis in straight sets a week ago in the Acura Classic semifinals, Seles has wins over No. 2 Jennifer Capriati and No. 8 Serena Williams in her latest comeback from injury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “It’s really great to break through some of the players who’ve given me trouble in the past,” she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Seles is playing for the third week in a row after being off the WTA Tour since May with a foot injury that caused her to miss the French Open and Wimbledon . She also plans to play next week in Toronto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It’s been a grueling week for Seles, whose match time has totaled 61\/2 hours, including three-set wins over Sandrine Testud , Williams and Hingis. Davenport, on the other hand, has spent about 3 hours, 15 minutes winning her four matches, including a 47-minute rout of Tauziat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The match was so close, Hingis actually won 87 of the 172 points – two more than Seles, who also struggled with nine double faults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “I was tough enough to hold my serve the entire third set and that was the difference,” Seles said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Seles, the sixth seed, broke Hingis three times to win the first set. Hingis cut down on her errors in the second set and broke Seles twice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Seles broke to start the third, then saved three break points and won the second game when Hingis’ forehand sailed long to go up 2-0. Seles served a love game and won on Hingis’ forehand error for a 3-1 lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hingis used an 86-mph ace on her second serve to close to 5-4, but Seles set up match point with a 107-mph service winner and won on Hingis’ backhand error.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Davenport had her easiest match of the week, needing just 47 minutes to dispose of the Frenchwoman, who plans to retire at year’s end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “I was hitting the ball better than the last few days. We didn’t have really long rallies, but I felt like I was timing the ball better and just felt a little bit less pressure than yesterday,” said Davenport, who connected on 83 percent of her first serves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Davenport needed three sets to get by No. 7 Elena Dementieva in the quarterfinals Friday, and won two tiebreakers in a third-round win over 18-year-old Daja Bedanova.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No matter what Davenport does in Sunday’s final, she already has withdrawn from the Toronto tournament, citing left wrist tendinitis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Davenport broke Tauziat five times, scoring easy winners with serves that often registered more than 100 mph. Her groundstrokes were far more accurate than in previous matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tauziat committed 16 unforced errors, and won just 15 of her 31 trips to the net.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “She made some volley errors, especially in the beginning, that normally she is pretty solid on,” Davenport said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tauziat, 33, defeated 11th-seeded Jelena Dokic and No. 3 Kim Clijsters to reach her fifth semifinal of the year. Shortly after losing to Davenport, she returned to win a doubles semifinal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By BETH HARRIS, AP Sports Writer MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. (AP) – Monica Seles vanquished Martina Hingis for the second straight week, winning 6-3, 1-6, 6-4 in the estyle.com Classic semifinals Saturday night. 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I'm really not sore, just tired,'' Seles said.<\/code>It would be nice if I could get a day off.”<\/p>\n\n\n\nI knew she could step it up again,'' Hingis said.<\/code>I didn’t have that many chances.”<\/p>\n\n\n\nI tried to come into the court to cut the angles, but in the first set I made too many mistakes,'' Hingis said.<\/code>In the second, we were equal and in the third she served better.”<\/p>\n\n\n\nShe didn't play great and I played a lot better than I have so far this week,'' she said.<\/code>It’s nice after struggling in a few matches and having some long matches to have kind of an easier match. Hopefully, it will help me for tomorrow to rest a little bit more.”<\/p>\n\n\n\nIt felt a lot better today than yesterday, that's for sure,'' she said.<\/code>I got some treatment on it twice yesterday and will do it again tomorrow. It showed a lot on my backhand. I felt a lot looser and it felt like I could use it more than yesterday.”<\/p>\n\n\n\nShe served well and I had trouble,'' Tauziat said.<\/code>Every time I returned, I had to return well. She was quick on the ball and I was always late.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n