Wellington: Former world number one Caroline Wozniacki trounced Alexandra Dulgheru for the loss of just one game to reach the WTA Auckland Classic semi-finals on Thursday. The third seed, who has not dropped a set all week, took only 52 minutes to overwhelm Romania's Dulgheru 6-1, 6-0 and set up a last-four clash with American Sloane Stephens.


Caroline Wozniacki celebrates a point in Auckland yesterday

The second semi-final will be between Germany's Julia Goerges and qualifier Tamira Paszek from Austria, whose head-to-head record is 2-2. They benefited from being in the same half of the draw as the top two seeds, Venus Williams and Ana Ivanovic, who were first round casualties.