Victoria Azarenka of Belarus (L) shakes hands after defeating Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia following their women's quarter-final match at the U.S. Open tennis championships in New York September 4, 2013. REUTERS/Ray Stubblebine
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Second seed Victoria Azarenka punished a series of errors by Daniela Hantuchova to win 6-2 6-3 on Wednesday and set up a U.S. Open semi-final clash with Italy's Flavia Pennetta.
Belarusian Azarenka, the beaten finalist at Flushing Meadows last year, took control after breaking the Slovak with a superb backhand to go 5-2 up in the first set.
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