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Dinara Safina earns chance to justify top ranking against Svetlana Kuznetsova | French Open 2009 | The Guardian
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Russia's Dinara Safina gestures, after defeating Venus Williams from the U.S., during a semifinal match at the Italian Rome Masters tennis tournament in Rome, Friday, May 8, 2009. Safina won 6-7(3), 6-3,
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