Things looked dicey midway through the match for Sharapova - she originally led 6-1, 2-2, seemingly on the way to a routine victory, before Rybarikova won five of the next seven games to take the second set and take a 1-0 lead in the third. But the No.1-seeded Sharapova regrouped just in time, winning six of the next seven games to close the match out in two hours and 13 minutes, 6-1, 4-6, 6-2.
Sharapova has now made the semifinals or better at 17 of the 19 International-level events she's played in her career, the only pre-semifinal losses coming at Tokyo [Japan Open] in 2002 (losing to Emmanuelle Gagliardi first round) and Auckland in 2011 (losing to Greta Arn in the quarterfinals).
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