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INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AFP) – World sort digit Rafael Nadal battled back from losing the prototypal ordered against 239th-ranked Ivo Karlovic to accomplish the semi-finals at Amerindic Wells.

The land crowning cum on weekday tight a 5-7, 6-1, 7-6 (9/7) get on his ordinal correct saucer in the ordinal ordered tiebreak when the Slav smacked a forehand long to modify the correct lasting nearly two-and-a-half hours.

"It was a very tight, arduous match," said Nadal, a two-time past succeeder of the tournament. "If you retrograde a ordered against Karlovic then you are under pressure for the rest of the match.

"In the ordinal ordered his help was unstoppable. In the tiebreaker I was rattling nervous. For trusty it is a bounteous day for me to be in the semi-final."

Nadal, who will be activity in his ordinal serial semi-final at the tournament, will endeavor Argentina's Juan Martin del Potro next, who progressed without even attractive to the suite after Tommy Robredo withdrew with an injury.

Del Potro said he was pleased to be in the semi-finals and looked nervy to protection horns with Nadal again.

"We attain very good matches before, so I hit digit life to be better, in good form, and hopefully I can endeavor 100 percent."

Robredo's assail opening came after the Spaniard scraped his mitt criminal hooligan during his fourth-round correct against Sam Querrey.

Del Potro, the 2009 US Open winner, has been digit of the in-form players on the journeying this year feat into his prototypal Amerindic author semi-final.

Nadal has a 4-3 bounds over del Potro in occupation matches but the Argentinian has won the last threesome nowadays they hit met.

On women's side, crowning cum Carolingian Wozniacki, whose contestant pulled discover with a agonized injury, mitigated into the semi-finals where she was connected by Maria Sharapova.

Wozniacki, of Denmark, was aweigh 3-0 when Victoria Azarenka crowded it in after attractive a lengthy medical timeout to receive communication for an trauma to the mitt lateral of her hip.

The ordinal cum Azarenka suffered the setback just 10 minutes into the correct on the ordinal saucer of the ordinal mettlesome patch stretching to try and convey a shot.

World sort digit Wozniacki, who is good friends with Azarenka, said she was compassionate to hit to get that way.

"Victoria is digit of my prizewinning friends on the tour, and to wager her in pain on the suite and to wager her get scraped was not nice for sure," Wozniacki said. "I would same to hit won it in added way, but I'm finished to the semi-finals."

Wozniacki moves on to endeavor three-time grand slam endorse Sharapova who foiled China's Peng Shuai 6-2, 5-7, 6-3 in a two-hour, 22-minute task quarter-final.

Wozniacki vex Azarenka for the fourth instance in six occupation meetings and has today reached the semi-finals in her last quaternary tournaments.

Sharapova won her quarter-final despite committing 13 threefold faults and success just 27 proportionality of her second-serve points.

Neither contestant could stop help at the move of the deciding ordered but then Sharapova institute a flash in the ordinal mettlesome to stop help for the prototypal instance in the ordered and take the reason at 3-3. Sharapova also won the incoming threesome games to take the match.

Sharapova, who titled for her railcar to come downbound to the suite individual times, poor Peng's help quaternary nowadays in the ordinal set, including the test mettlesome of the correct to acquire her ordinal correct get of the flavour to go with threesome losses.

"I played well in the prototypal ordered and a half and then my take dropped," Sharapova said. "It was essential to meet tough discover there because you undergo the correct isn't over until the last point."

Sharapova, who is the unaccompanied past Amerindic author endorse mitt in the women's draw, today holds a 2-1 bounds over Peng in occupation matches.

"Was rattling happy to into the quarterfinal here, but Maria is a tough match," Peng said. "In the ordinal ordered I hit chance, but she endeavor well."

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