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Second seed Caroline Wozniacki says her 2011 Australian Open semifinal defeat to Li Na still haunts her as she tries to go one better this year and end her grand slam drought.


The Dane held match points against the Chinese great on her only previous appearance in the last four at Melbourne Park.


“That’s the one that really hurt Authentic Blake Comeau Jersey ,” Wozniacki said after reaching a semifinal again on Wednesday with a three-set victory over Spain’s gritty 39th-ranked Carla Suarez Navarro.


“I had match points against Li Na. I lost it. That’s still haunting me till this day. So I’m hoping for a different result this time.”


Wozniacki will face unseeded Belgian debutant Elise Mertens on Thursday for a place in Saturday’s final, but seven years on she remembers her meltdown against Li like it was yesterday.


“I remember serving for it at 5-4 in the second set. I remember being up 3-1 in the second set, serving with the sun,” she recalled.


“That was very difficult. Maybe if I had been on the other side of the court Authentic Alexander Kerfoot Jersey , it would have been different.


“I remember very well that match. I usually forget matches and I don’t remember playing certain people. I don’t remember a lot of things, but that one is one that I remember very well.”


Wozniacki was the top seed that year having risen to No. 1 in the world in 2010 and she said the defeat was crushing.


“I went back on the practice court. I never do that after going far in a tournament and losing after a tough battle,” she said. “I usually take a day off the next day. I went back and practised. Just needed to get some frustration out.


“That’s one that really hurt. I’ve lost from match points up and won from match points down before. That one was a special one.”


Li Na went on to lose the final to Kim Clijsters.


Wozniacki withstood a second set blip against Suarez Navarro to win 6-0, 6-7 (37) Authentic Sven Andrighetto Jersey , 6-2 in a match that finished after 1:30am local time.


JAKARTA, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- An official at Indonesia's tourism ministry said on Thursday that Bali would receive at least 1,500 Chinese tourists to celebrate the Chinese New Year on Indonesia's resort island next month.


Assistant Deputy Minister for Asia Pacific Marketing Development in the ministry Vincensius Jemadu said that confirmation on the upcoming visit of those Chinese tourists to Bali during the Chinese New Year in mid February was resulted from the recent Indonesia tourism minister's visit to China.


Jemadu added that the eagerness of Chinese tourists to celebrate the Chinese New Year in Bali was also highly contributed to the Chinese Consulate-General in Bali which has actively recommended Bali as the place to celebrate the Chinese New Year this year.


He said that Bali is now making preparations for the Chinese New Year celebration, which was slated to commence on February 15.


With generous assistance from the Chinese Consulate-General in Bali Authentic Tyson Barrie Jersey , the upcoming Chinese New Year celebration on the island would be featured by at least 20 performers from China plus several others from Indonesia, Jemadu said.


"We would also prepare gala dinner for those tourists during the event," Jemadu said in a statement.


Particularly to promote the Chinese New Year celebration in Bali, Jemadu said that the ministry has placed massive advertisements in various mainstream media as well as online media in China.


The ministry has also scheduled gatherings with representatives of Chinese travel agencies and media in China this month Authentic Semyon Varlamov Jersey , among others in Beijing, Nanning and Guangzhou, to promote Indonesian tourism.


Meanwhile on a different occasion, Indonesian Tourism Minister Arief Yahya said that his ministry and the Chinese Consulate-General in Bali had also jointly held Chinese New Year celebrations in Bali last year.


The minister said that the Chinese New Year holiday season is a great momentum to tap more Chinese tourists to visit Indonesia. He added that China now has huge outbound tourist potentialities with more than 130 million tourists conducting outbound traveling each year.


The minister was schedule