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Photo from FFT (Safina is one step closer to her first Grand Slam) Dinara Safina is one step closer to quieting all the critics by consolidating her number one ranking with her first Grand Slam title. Only her countrywoman, two time finalist stands in her way. Safina was all business today in her semifinal against the game Dominika Cibulkova. Despite seven double faults, Safina advanced to the finals of Roland Garros for a second consecutive year with a 6-3, 6-3 victory. The 20 year old Slovakian, in her first Grand Slam semifinal, exhibited the grit that has lead her near the Top 10 in the WTA world rankings, making the top ranked player earned every bit on the court today. The scoreline flattered Safina, because the match was much more arduous than the end result showed. Both players had the same amount of break points chances (eight), but Safina converted half of them while Cibulkova only broke once. For Kuznetsova, her task was harder however, as the veteran Australian Samantha St...

Photo by Clive Bruskill & Ryan Pierse/Getty Images Coming into this tournament, there was no question who was the number one player on the men's side, while the same question on the women's side was up for open and honest debate. Now, heading into the semifinal stages of this year's French Open, the debate has potentially led to the answer of the number one question flipping flopping on both gender's slides. The dominating straight set win Roger Federer had today, and the difficult defeat Serena Williams suffered earlier in the day has lead to that scenario happening. First, on Serena's defeat. I always though that she would crash out of the tournament at this stage, because the quarterfinal stage is always the telling stage to whether a Williams sister is ready to claim a Grand Slam or not, and most importantly, the person on the other side of the net was Svetlana Kuznetsova. The 7-6 (3), 5-7, 7-5 today by the Russian was the revenge she needed for blowing the ...