CHARLESTON: Top seed Elena Dementieva cruised into the semi-finals of the Family Circle Cup on Friday after her opponent Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia retired hurt. The Russian, who won Olympic gold in Beijing, will meet Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark, who trounced France's Virginie Razzano 6-2 6-0. Dementieva, who had lost only four games in her two previous matches, was leading 6-4 1-0 in the quarter-final when the seventh-seeded Slovakian retired with a left thigh injury.Fifth seed Wozniacki, who won last weekend's Florida claycourt title, completely outclassed 13th seed Razzano, but was banking on a sterner test in the semi-final. Another teenager in Sabine Lisicki of Germany booked a semi-final place, the 19-year-old riding out a comfortable 6-46-0 winner over Elena Vesnina of Russia. Lisicki, who upset world number five and second seed Venus Williams in the previous round, will play the winner of the quarter final bout between sixth seed Marion Bartoli of France and Hungarian Melinda Czink.
Friday, August 14, 2009 MUMBAI: A 26-year-old woman died Thursday of H1N1 swine flu in the southern city of Bangalore, raising India's death toll from the virus to 20, authorities said.The death was the first reported in India's information technology capital, the Press Trust of India reported.Meanwhile in Pune, the worst-affected in India, two more victims of the virus died Thursday, raising the death toll in that western city near Mumbai to 12, the report said. The victims were an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old old woman.US media reported movie halls, schools and colleges were ordered closed Thursday for three days to a week in Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of the country, as fear of the pandemic spread.Prajakata Lavangare, a spokeswoman for the government of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, said similar orders were issued in Pune, which is also located in the state.The woman who died in Bangalore was identified only as Roopa, a teacher in...
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