PARIS (AFP) ??” Russian sixth se Anastasia Myskina beat fourth-seeded American Venus Williams 6-3 6-4 to reach the French explain semi-finals to keep alive her country's room for expectations of putting an end to their extended wait for a champion in Paris.

PARIS (AFP) ??” Russian sixth se Anastasia Myskina beat fourth-seeded American Venus Williams 6-3 6-4 to reach the French explain semi-finals to keep alive her country's room for expectations of putting an end to their extended wait for a champion in Paris.

Myskina will now face 2001 champion Jennifer Capriati, the seventh se who beat 2002 winner Serena Williams, for a place in the final as she awaits to become the first Russian woman at any time to win the Roland Garros bays

The defeat compromiseed Venus's recent misery after she came into the tournament nursing a damaged ankle that forced her to default from the final in Berlin last month

It also came just a not many minutes after her sister had been knocked abroad of the tournament over upon the Philippe Chatrier Court.

Myskina had wasted both her previous meetings to the four-time Grand Slam title winner moreover ...