Li floors Radwanska to reach Open semis

MELBOURNE, Jan 22: China´s Li Na stormed into the Australian Open semi-finals Tuesday with a 7-5, 6-3 win over Poland´s Agnieszka Radwanska, who suffered her first defeat of the year.



Li became the first player to take a set off Radwanska this season when she edged a tight first set which saw seven breaks of serve, but she then lost the first two games of the second set to love.[break]



However, Li then rattled off five straight games and saw off two break points when she served for the match at 5-3 to claim her sixth win in 10 meetings with Radwanska.



Radwanska had been on a run of 13 straight wins, including 26 sets unbeaten, after claiming tournament wins in Auckland and Sydney.



Li will face the winner of Tuesday´s all-Russian quarter-final between world number two Maria Sharapova and Ekaterina Makarova in the last four.



Li, a 2011 Australian Open finalist, is now into her first Grand Slam semi-final since she won the French Open in 2011.

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