Last updated: 02/04/2011

Norfolk and Whiley to contest Pensacola semis

Britain's Peter Norfolk and Jordanne Whiley will both contest main draw semi-finals on Saturday at the Pensacola Open Wheelchair Tennis Championships, with Norfolk in the last four of the quad singles and Whiley looking to progress to the women's doubles final.  

Having already reached the quad singles semi-finals on Thursday, world No 2 Norfolk will take on Canadian world No 5 Sarah Hunter. Norfolk will be hoping to make up for a loss in Friday's quad doubles semi-finals, when Hunter was on the other side of the next.  

Norfolk and fellow Briton Jamie Burdekin lost 2-6 4-6 to the all-Canadian partnership of Adrian Dieleman and Hunter, but world No 2 Norfolk now goes into Saturday's singles semi-final unbeaten against Hunter since 2003.  

Meanwhile, Whiley had a mixed day on Friday, ending the day by partnering Belgium's Annick Sevenans to a comfortable 6-0, 6-0 victory over Colombia's Johana Martinez and Miho Nijo of Japan.in the women's doubles quarter-finals. 

The third seeds will now play Dutch top seeds Jiske Griffioen and Aniek van Koot in the semi-finals, with Whiley looking to put her earlier 3-6, 2-6 women's singles quarter-final loss to world No 5 van Koot firmly behind her.  

British men's No 1 David Phillipson also saw his men's singles challenge end against Dutch opposition on Friday.  World No 11 Phillipson slipped to a 0-6, 2-6 in his quarter-final against Dutch world No 4 Ronald Vink.  

Saturday's British challenge in Pensacola also sees Antony Cotterill on court in his quad consolation singles semi-final, in which he plays American world No 9 Bryan Barten.

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