WASHINGTON, March 17 (Xinhuanet) -- Fourth seed Elena Dementieva upset top seed Justine Henin Hardenne 2-6, 7-5, 7-5 Friday night to set up a Pacific Life Open final held in Indian Wells, California, against her Russian fellow Maria Sharapova.

    Sharapova, third seed, beat Martina Hingis 6-3, 6-3 in the earlier semifinal.

    On the men's quarter-finals, American James Blake overwhelmed Igor Andreev of Russia 6-1, 6-4, while second seed Rafael Nadal ofSpain nipped 25th seed Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus 7-5, 6-0.

    Henin came into the match with a 7-1 winning record over Dementieva and cruised through the first set and a half before thewheels came off with the score at 2-5.

    A notoriously slow starter Dementieva suddenly found her game, running down ball after ball and rarely making errors. She broke Henin twice to get back to 5-5 and then wore her bewildered opponent down to take the set.

    Henin had her right knee wrapped in between sets and regained momentum in the third set. Dementieva held a match point with Henin serving at 4-5 but the Belgian came up with an overhead winner.

    With Henin serving at 5-6, however, her legs gave out and she committed two backhand errors to lose the contest.

    Sharapova gave a sterling performance against Hingis, wearing her opponent down in long rallies, attacking the Swiss player's second serves and bullying her from the forehand side.

    Hingis tried to move the Russian around the court but Sharapovastayed in the points and put away any mid-court balls with aplomb. Enditem