WTA Moscow. Stosur beats Ivanovic. Halep storms in the semifinal

Sam Stosur wins the big match of the day beating Ana Ivanovic in straight sets.

In the opener the Australian had to recover a 0-3 deficit to then break the Serbian Beauty twice in the 5th (3-2) and 11th (6-5) game. In the second set just one break divided these two and that was in the 3rd game. Match Stats

Sam will play the semifinal against Svetlana Kuznetsova. Head to head is 3-3.

Halep

Simona Halep literally storms in the semifinal without breaking a sweat. In the first match the world no.18 benefited from a retiring Rybarikova to lose a couple of games (6-2 ret.); in the quarters she conceded only 2 games to Alisa Kleybanova to win 6-1 6-1 in 62 minutes. Match Stats

In the semifinal Simona will face world no. 30 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. Head to head is 2-0 for Simona.