Garbine Muguruza Blanco of Spain serves to Anna Karolina Schmiedlova of Slovakia during their women's singles quarter-final match at the Wuhan Open tennis tournament, Hubei province, October 1, 2015. REUTERS/China Daily
BEIJING (Reuters) - Grand slam finalists Garbine Muguruza and Roberta Vinci stormed into the last four of the Wuhan Open in China on Thursday while Venus Williams ended the giant-killing run of Briton Johanna Konta.
Konta had accounted for world number two Simona Halep, 13th seed Andrea Petkovic and benefited from former world number one Victoria Azarenka retiring from their second-round clash but seven-times grand slam champion Williams proved too strong.
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