seeded Nikolay Davydenko will play defending champion Juan Monaco in the final of the Hypo Group International on Saturday. In Friday's semifinals, Davydenko beat his Russian compatriot Igor Kunitsyn 6-3, 6-2, and second-seeded Monaco saved three match points before beating Ivan Ljubicic of Croatia 6-4, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (4). Radwanska-Dementieva final Top-seeded Elena Dementieva and No.2 Agnieska Radwanska of Poland won semifinal matches to advance to Saturday's Istanbul Cup final. Dementieva beat sixth-seeded Akgul Amanmuradova of Uzbekistan, 6-2, 6-4, and Radwanska defeated Tsvetana Pironkova of Bulgaria 7-6 (1), 3-6, 6-1 on Friday. The clay-court tournament is a warm-up event for the French Open. Garrigues in final Defending champion Anabel Medina Garrigues beat Timea Bacsinszky of Switzerland 6-3, 6-3 Friday to advance to the final at the Strasbourg International. The sixth-seeded Spaniard broke serve five times to set up a final against No. 5 Katarina Srebotnik of Slovenia, who ended the run of unseeded Taiwanese Chan Yung-jan 6-1, 6-7 (8), 6-4. It's Simon vs. Benneteau Gilles Simon of France reached the Grand Prix Hassan II final on a walkover Friday after Australian Open finalist Jo-Wilfried Tsonga pulled out because of a knee injury. It will be an all-French clay-court final at Casablanca after fifth-seeded Julien Benneteau rallied to beat No. 3 Agustin Calleri of Argentina 1-6, 6-1, 6-3. Russia to meet Sweden Russia will play Sweden in Saturday's World Team Cup final in Duesseldorf after it beat host Germany and Spain lost to Italy in Friday's Blue Group ties. Dmitry Tursunov came through a tight match to beat former world number four Nicolas Kiefer 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 and give Russia an unassailable 2-0 lead after Igor Andreev had earlier beaten Phillip Kohlschreiber 6-4, 6-3. However Potito Starace and Simone Bolelli defeated Marcel Granollers and Feliciano Lopez 6-4, 7-6 in the decisive doubles rubber to give Italy a 2-1 win. The Italians finished joint top of the group but went out because they had been beaten by the Russians. Three-time winner Sweden booked its place in the final as Red Group winner when it beat the United States on Thursday.
