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STUTTGART, Germany - Justine Henin got away with lapses of concentration at the end of each set to beat unseeded Russian Elena Dementieva 6-4 6-4 and book a semi-final place at the Stuttgart Grand Prix on Friday.
Henin, playing only her second match since winning the U.S. Open, took a 5-0 lead in the first but missed two chances to serve out before a Dementieva double-fault saw her home.
The world number one was uncharacteristically wasteful in the second set, too, losing her serve at 5-3 before clinching the match with a break back in the final game.
Henin next faces the third-seeded Serb Jelena Jankovic, after an injury to Nadia Petrova forced the defending champion to retire in the second set of their quarter-final.
Petrova had won the first set on a tie-break before suffering a recurrence of a left hip injury, finally calling it a day when she trailed 5-1 in the second.
Unseeded Tatiana Golovin of France was the first player through to the semis at the $650,000 indoor tournament. She beat Ukrainian Kateryna Bondarenko 6-3 6-4 with minimal fuss to book a meeting with Serena Williams or Svetlana Kuznetsova.
Henin, who enjoyed almost a month off after winning her seventh grand slam title in New York in September, looked at her untouchable best as she moved 5-0 ahead against Dementieva.
That changed when the Russian grabbed a break back for 1-5 and added the next three games before self-destructing on set-point, much to Henin's relief.
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