WTA World Tour Finals results

Svetlana Kuznetsova beat fellow Russian Elena Dementieva at the Sony Ericsson Championships in Doha - to send Venus Williams into the semi-finals.Dementieva could have qualified from the Maroon Group with a win, but she played poorly in a 6-3 6-2 defeat. Earlier, Jelena Jankovic reached the last four with a 6-2 6-2 rout of Caroline Wozniacki in the White Group.

Denmark's Wozniacki progressed after Victoria Azarenka retired due to cramp when trailing Agnieszka Radwanska. Defending champion Venus joins her sister Serena as the two players qualified from the Maroon Group to reach Saturday's semi-finals.

Venus will face Jankovic, while Serena plays Wozniacki for a place in the final of the $US4.55m tournament with the eventual champion taking home (£944,000).

Sony Ericsson WTA Tour Championships

As if this tournament wasn't unappealing enough already with most of the players out of form, Wozniacki's betting scandal etc., then the group selection is just indescribable. I'll explain more later

The players who qualified have been:

Dinara Safina
Serena Williams
Caroline Wozniacki
Elena Dementieva
Svetlana Kuznetsova
Victoria Azarenka
Venus Williams
Jelena Jankovic

Alts - Vera Zvonareva and Agnieszka Radwanska

So - the groups. For some reason, as if to add insult to the joke that has been the WTA Roadmap, the groups have been split as follows:

1st Group

Serena Williams
Svetlana Kuznetsova
Elena Dementieva
Venus Williams

2nd Group

Dinara Safina
Caroline Wozniacki
Victoria Azarenka
Jelena Jankovic

Big clap, organisers. Put the four best players in one group and the other four who have won about two matches since Wimbledon between them in the other.

Oh. My. God.