Grand Slam winners Myskina, Kuznetsova to lead Russia at Fed Cup semifinals

French Open champion Anastasia Myskina and U.S. Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova will lead Russia's Fed Cup team when it plays Austria in this month's semifinals.
Russia, hoping to win its first Fed Cup title, boasts two of the game's top five players - No. 3 Myskina and No. 4 Kuznetsova. Also on the team are No. 11 Vera Zvonareva and No. 24 Elena Likhovtseva. Another Russian star, Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova, was playing in the season-ending WTA Championships final Monday.

Russia should ease past Austria, which lost Barbara Schett and Barbara Schwartz, its two stars from the quarter-final upset of the United States. Schwartz has been injured since August, and Schett tore ligaments in her right ankle while training this month.



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