In the semifinals played today world ranked 36 and top seed Jovanovski ended the fairy tale run of local wildcard Nigina Abduraimova 6-4,7-5 in just 1 hours 28 minutes , while third seeded third seed and world ranked 71 Karin Knapp of Italy quelled the challenge of the giant killing qualifier Lesia Tsurenko of Ukraine 6-3,6-3 in 1 hour 40 minutes.
In a match which witnessed as many as 17 double faults from both players , Jovanovski broke the local Uzbek in the 7th game after bad service game from Nigina and then held on to register a 6-4 win. In the second set which saw as many as 7 breaks on both sides .
The top seeded seemed more settled as compared to her previous matches pushing Nigina to commit mistakes. Jovanovski broke Nigina in the 11th game and managed to hold on to the 12th game and wrap the match and place in the finals for the second year in a row.
" I started well today and happy to finish the match in two sets instead of three I have been playing the whole week" said Bojana. It was good to play in front of so many people and would like to compliment Nigina for a wonderful week and game. She has improved a lot and am sure she will be a very good player" , she added.
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