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MADE TO SWEAT: Dinara Safina plays a shot to Victoria Azarenka during their quarter-final match at the French Open.

MADE TO SWEAT: Dinara Safina plays a shot to Victoria Azarenka during their quarter-final match at the French Open.

Safina survives tough test, Jankovic knocked out

World No. 1 Dinara Safina came from behind to survive her first real test at the French Open on Tuesday, reaching the semi-finals after beating feisty Belarussian teenager Victoria Azarenka 1-6, 6-4, 6-2. The Russian, who had dropped only five games in her first four matches, more than doubled that figure in the 23-minute first set, as the ninth seed gave Safina a taste of her own medicine with some aggressive crosscourt shots.

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