LYCOS RETRIEVER
Flavia Pennetta: Finals
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Pennetta, the world number 33, routed France's Pauline Parmentier, the fourth seed, 6-2, 6-0 to earn a spot in a final for the seventh time in her career. The 25-year-old will look for her fifth career title on Sunday at the clay- court event.
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Pennetta has reached the Acapulco final every year since 2004, and won in 2005. In the semifinals, she'll play No. 7 Kaia Kanepi of Estonia. Pennetta beat Kanepi two weeks ago in the Vina del Mar quarterfinals en route to her fifth WTA title.
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This is Pennetta's eighth semifinal at a WTA Tour event in Latin America's clay-court season, which until this year stopped only at Bogota and Acapulco. She's advanced to six of those finals and won two.
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The clay-loving Pennetta has appeared in the last four finals here, going 1-3. She was last year's runner-up to France's Emilie Loit and titled here in 2005. Pennetta ... had runner-up finishes in 2004 and 2006.
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