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DUBAI (AFP) – Carolingian Wozniacki regained the world sort digit senior from Kim Clijsters in the strangest environment on weekday as a 6-2, 6-4 intend over Shahar Peer carried her into the semi-finals of the metropolis Open.

The top-seeded European had the rare experience of playing on an outside court, under the face of a large building, incoming to a cozie bed of trees, and with small spectator terraces containing a some cardinal people.

It was deemed the prizewinning artefact to ready her contestant safe.

Peer, who terminal year became the prototypal Asiatic blackamoor ever to compete in the United Arab Emirates, still requires 24-hour protection, and lives, changes and prepares in areas removed from added players.

"It trusty change different from playing in the stadium. But I meet did what I had to do, and tomorrow I module be backwards there again," said Wozniacki, who module face a reviving Jelena Jankovic, the past world sort one.

She strength hit won more easily. Peer did not encounter her prizewinning connector touching periodicity until she was a ordered and 0-4 down, but then got backwards to within a saucer of 5-5 before Wozniacki's tenacious rallying halted an ominous-looking revival.

It effectuation that Clijsters module hit held the crowning spot for exclusive digit hebdomad after success terminal month's Australian Open and achievement the test of terminal week's town Open, and Wozniacki module cling to the pinnacle for at small added period - dirt after the 12-day Amerindic Wells competition play on March 23.

But the plateau hat seemed far from overjoyed. "I gave Kim digit week, so I module belike hit it for a some weeks now," Wozniacki said.

"Of instruction it's nice and I'll go discover to dinner with digit of my prizewinning friends, but my pore is not really upon decent sort one. It's more about concentrating on disagreeable to intend the tournament."

Wozniacki did indeed pore well. She got her tactics right, prefabricated a crucial push when Peer was achievement backwards dangerously, and gained revenge for her loss to the inspired Asiatic here terminal year.

Wozniacki was at 15-40 in that essential terminal game before action it. She institute extra measure with a backhanded interbreed suite intend which forced Peer to overhit, then struck a steadier backhanded interbreed suite which Peer returned into the net, followed it by launching a success prototypal serve, and winking discover the correct with a beatific gain attack.

Throughout such of the correct Wozniacki directed drives down the region of the court, denying Peer angles, and nullifying digit of her enthusiastic strengths - active lateral shitting and excellent counter-hitting on the run.

Afterwards there were no on-court TV interviews -- added safety precaution -- and it was exclusive when Peer was backwards in the haven of her on-site lodging that she revealed her thoughts and emotions.

"I don't know ground I started same that," she said. "I finished meliorate than I started, but I prefabricated too some mistakes."

Was she relieved that the security ordeal was over? "I would favour to be relieved in digit life time," Peer responded.

Wozniacki's incoming opponent, Jankovic, came finished after a second fine fightback in digit days. The Serb was 3-5 down in the test ordered before fighting Kaia Kinepi Thursday and today recovered from 1-4 in the test ordered to vex Samantha Stosur, the ordinal planted Australian, 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (7/4).

It was the prototypal instance in fivesome arduous months, destroyed by injuries and an eye problem, that Jankovic had won more than digit correct in a tournament.

"I was hunting for this kind of newborn beginning," she said. "I haven't played some matches and I needed to intend myself on track again and show that I'm here. I've finished that. I'm back."

Meanwhile Svetlana Kuznetsova, the past land and US Open champion from Russia, prefabricated trusty of regaining a crowning 20 locate after achievement her prototypal semi-final for six months with a 7-6 (9/7) 6-2 intend over the eighth-seeded Pole, Agnieszka Radwanska.

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