Hingis in Kremlin Cup finals

Hingis, fresh from winning the Swisscom Challenge - her first title on home soil two weeks ago - beat Kveta Hrdlickova of Slovakia and Olympic silver medalist Elena Dementieva of Russia on her way to the semifinals. Mauresmo broke Hingis in the first and fifth games of the first set to take a 5-1 lead, but the Swiss star quickly gained control of the match, winning the next six games in a row and giving Mauresmo only four points before closing the first set and breaking the Frenchwoman at love in the twelveth game. "I just didn't play very well in the beginning, I made a lot of errors, and then I stopped doing it," Hingis said. "And the game changed around. I just made it too easy for her in the beginning. Mauresmo said after the match, "I still don't know how it happened. At 1-5 it was not difficult to read my game, because I was no longer in it." After trading breaks early in the second set, Hingis went ahead 5-2 and never gave her opponent a chance to stay in the match. Hingis has won all Tier I WTA Tour events except the one in Moscow. The winner of the women's event will get dlrs 166,000 prize money while the men's champion will receive a check for dlrs 137,000.

(AP)