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Updated at 9:40 a.m., Saturday, July 12, 2008

Tennis: Top-seeded Wawrinka falls to Hanescu at Swiss Open

Associated Press

GSTAAD, Switzerland — Top-seeded Stanislas Wawrinka lost to Victor Hanescu 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 today in a Swiss Open semifinal.

Hanescu will play Guillermo Garcia-Lopez of Spain or Igor Andreev of Russia in the final.

Garcia-Lopez and Andreev will continue Sunday at one set each after the match was suspended due to rain. The seventh-seeded Andreev took the first set on a tiebreaker before Garcia-Lopez won the second 7-5.

Wawrinka, a finalist in 2005, again failed to win in his native Switzerland. He has not won a tournament in two years despite reaching a No. 10 ranking.