seeded Robin Soderling beat fellow Swede Andreas Vinciguerra 6-1, 7-6 (6) Saturday to set up a meeting with Juan Monaco in the Swedish Open final. Monaco, an unseeded Argentine, routed two-time defending champion Tommy Robredo 6-0, 6-2 in the other semifinal on the slow clay. Soderling, this year's surprise French Open finalist, saved a set point in the second-set tiebreaker when trailing 6-5. He won it 8-6 when Vinciguerra netted a forehand return. Vinciguerra, a wild card entry ranked No. 460, broke Soderling's serve only once to level at 3-3 in the second set. The 12th-ranked Soderling reached his first final at Bastad. Soderling will try to become the first Swedish winner of the tournament since 2000, when his coach Magnus Norman won the title. Hanescu-Chardy final In Stuttgart, Frenchman Jeremy Chardy beat Germany's Nicolas Kiefer 6-3, 7-5 on Saturday to reach the Stuttgart Cup final where he will face fourth seed Victor Hanescu. World number 43 Chardy reached his second tournament final of the year with a convincing performance on a windy and drizzly day. “It was a great week for me and I played well despite playing two matches today,” he said, having also played his quarterfinal against German Mischa Zverev earlier on Saturday after rain washed out play on Friday. “Now I want to win my first title tomorrow.” Earlier Hanescu had ended Fabio Fognini's dream run, beating the Italian 6-3, 6-7, 6-2 to reach his first final in a year. The 1.98-meter (six-foot-six) Romanian needed a solitary break at 4-3 to grab the first set. Errani-Pennetta final In Sicily, defending champion Sara Errani will meet top-seeded Flavia Pennetta in an all-Italian final of the Palermo Open. Fifth-seeded Errani beat Anna-Lena Groenefeld of Germany 6-3, 4-6, 6-1 in the semifinals on Saturday and Pennetta defeated another Italian, Tathiana Garbin, 6-1, 6-1 on the red clay courts of the Country Time Club. Errani improved her career Palermo record to 12-1. Besides her title last year, Errani reached the semifinals in 2007. Pennetta has not dropped a set all week. While Pennetta has never won the title in Palermo, it's the second time she's reached the final – the first was in 2004. She lost to Errani in last year's semifinals but they are 1-1 against each other overall. Rain puts off Prague semis Steady rainfall forced the organizers of the Prague WTA Open tournament to put off Saturday's semifinals till Sunday. “It's been raining all day and the situation is hopeless,” said Vladislav Savrda, the director of the tournament. Czech Iveta Benesova and Austria's Sybille Bammer started their match but only managed three games, with Bammer leading 3-0 in the first set. The match is scheduled to resume on Sunday morning, just like the other semifinal between top-seeded Italian Francesca Schiavone and Switzerland's Timea Bacsinszky.
