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Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci stayed on course to defend their Rome doubles title with a 62 61 semifinal win over Alla Kudryavtseva and Anastasia Rodionova on Saturday evening.

Nadia Petrova and Katarina Srebotnik's return to form continued with a routine win over Jelena Jankovic and Mirjana Lucic-Baroni at the Internazionali BNL d'Italia on Friday.

Madrid may be just their second tournament together, but on Saturday Cara Black and Marina Erakovic will take on Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Lucie Safarova for the title

Kimiko Date-Krumm may be the oldest player on tour, but she has no plans to hang up her raquets just yet - much to the chagrin of her husband.

Australian Fed Cup captain Alicia Molik was impressed by Ashleigh Barty's mature Fed Cup performance against Switzerland last weekend.

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This week's Fed Cup semifinals in Moscow and Palermo will see several of the competition's most experienced campaigners in action, including Daniela Hantuchova and Roberta Vinci.

The first-time team of Lisa Raymond and Laura Robson created one of the stories of the tournament when they reached the final in Miami last month.

Nadia Petrova and Katarina Srebotnik closed in on another doubles final when they defeated Julia Goerges and Yaroslava Shvedova in Miami on Wednesday.

Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci overcame a slow start to reach the doubles quarterfinals in Indian Wells.