Nikolay Davydenko, Juan Monaco and Ivan Ljubicic reached the semifinals of the Hypo Group International on Thursday along with Igor Kunitsyn of Russia. The top-seeded Davydenko beat Andreas Seppi of Italy 6-3, 1-6, 6-3, and will next play Kunitsyn, who defeated Jurgen Melzer of Austria 6-4, 3-6, 6-3. Monaco, the defending champion, defeated Robby Ginepri of the United States 7-5, 7-6 (3) to set up a semifinal match against Ljubicic, who fought off five match points before beating Daniel Gimeno-Traver of Spain 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (6). Davydenko twice needed medical treatment for a left thigh injury in the second set, but looked healthy again in the decider against Seppi, who had beaten Dudi Sela of Israel 7-5, 6-1 earlier in the day. Earlier Thursday, Monaco beat Jiri Vanek of the Czech Republic 6-2, 6-2 and Ginepri rallied to defeat Olivier Rochus of Belgium 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 in the second round. Also, Davydenko defeated John Isner of the US 6-2, 6-7 (6), 6-3. Also in the second round, Melzer beat eighth-seeded Robin Haase of the Netherlands 6-3, 4-6, 6-2, and Kunitsyn defeated qualifier Blaz Kavcic 6-1, 6-4. Dementieva in semis Top-seeded Elena Dementieva defeated Jill Craybas 6-1, 6-4 Thursday to advance to the semifinals at the Istanbul Cup. The seventh-ranked Russian will next play sixth-seeded Akgul Amanmuradova of Uzbekistan, who upset third-seeded Nadia Petrova 7-6 (0), 1-6, 6-4 in the warm-up event for the French Open. Second-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska rallied to defeat Andreja Klepac 1-6, 6-2, 6-4, and eighth-seeded Tsvetana Pironkova of Bulgaria beat fourth-seeded Olga Govortsova 7-6 (4), 7-6 (2). Bondarenko beaten Timea Bacsinszky of Switzerland upset second-seeded Alona Bondarenko of Ukraine 7-6 (6), 6-2 Thursday to reach the semifinals of the Strasbourg International. Bacsinszky broke Bondarenko's serve five times to stay on course for her first career title. The 18-year-old player reached the semis for the first time since losing to the recently retired Justine Henin at Antwerp, Belgium in February. Bacsinszky will face defending champion Anabel Medina Garrigues, who had a walkover against No. 4 Flavia Pennetta of Italy. Pennetta had a muscle strain in her left thigh. Also, Chan Yung-jan of Taiwan upset seventh-seeded Ai Sugiyama of Japan 6-4, 6-2. She next faces No. 5 Katarina Srebotnik of Slovenia, who beat Peng Shuai of China 6-4, 7-5. Tsonga in semifinals Australian Open finalist Jo-Wilfried Tsonga beat former champion Santiago Ventura of Spain 6-3, 6-3 Thursday to reach the semifinals of the Grand Prix Hassan II. Tsonga next plays qualifier Gilles Simon, who beat fourth-seeded Marc Gicquel 6-3, 6-2. Third-seeded Agustin Calleri of Argentina and fifth-seeded Julien Benneteau of France will meet in Friday's other semifinal match. Calleri had a walkover win over Younes El Aynaoui - the Moroccan player had a left calf injury - and Benneteau was leading 6-3, 5-2 when Oscar Hernandez of Spain pulled out with a right-foot injury. Sweden in final Sweden advanced to the World Team Cup final Thursday by taking a 2-0 lead over the United States in the Red Group in Germany. Robin Soderling maintained his unbeaten streak at the tournament by defeating James Blake 5-7, 6-3, 6-0, and Thomas Johansson then beat Bobby Reynolds 6-3, 2-6, 6-3. Also in the Red Group, Argentina and the Czech Republic are even at 1-1. In the Blue Group, Russia leads Germany 1-0 and Spain leads Italy 1-0. The winner of the Blue Group will face Sweden in Saturday's final. Tomas Berdych beats Guillermo Canas 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 to give the Czechs a 1-0 lead over Argentina, but Juan Ignacio Chela then defeated Michal Tabara 6-0, 6-4 to even the score. Spain got its point from David Ferrer, who beat Potito Starace of Italy 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, and Igor Andreev put Russia ahead of Germany by defeating Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-4, 6
