Chakvetadze reaches Moscow final

Chakvetadze has reached her second final of the season

Anna Chakvetadze claimed a shock victory over fourth seed Elena Dementieva to reach the Kremlin Cup final in Moscow.

Chakvetadze, 19, who reached the last four after Maria Sharapova pulled out injured, survived a second-set wobble to beat her fellow Russian 7-5 3-6 6-0.

She will now play fifth seed Nadia Petrova on Sunday after her win over Nicole Vaidisova of the Czech Republic.

Petrova, who is struggling with a groin problem, won 6-0 4-6 7-6.

The 24-year-old won the first set in just 36 minutes but lost her way after asking for a medical time-out to treat her right leg early in the second.

Vaidisova, 17, who beat top seed and world number one Amelie Mauresmo in Friday's quarter-finals, regained her composure to level the match.

But Petrova, fresh from winning the Stuttgart Grand Prix last week, wasted six match points in the 10th game of the final set before finally prevailing 7-3 in the tie-break.

"I had a problem with my left leg in Friday's game and I was worried that I couldn't fully recover for this match," she said.

"Then, in the second set I injured my right leg. I had so much pain I wasn't sure I would finish the match.

"I was given painkillers to continue and it enabled me to regain some of my strength in the third set."

Chakvetadze, who won the Guangzhou Open in Beijing on 1 October, edged an error-strewn first set in 66 minutes.

But Dementieva levelled the scores, breaking serve in the eighth game of the second set, before Chakvetadze dominated the decider - winning it to love.