Tennis: Morocco's Arazi cruises to semi-finals of Adelaide's tournament

Morocco's Hicham Arazi qualified on Friday to the semi-finals of Australian Men's Hardcourt Championships in Adelaide, an ATP fixture endowed with a US$ 357,000 prize.

Arazi, 4th seeded, booked his ticket after upsetting 8th seeded Croatian Ivan Ljubicic who left the competition at the first set for an elbow injury.

Arazi will be playing either Austrian Mark Philippousis or US todd Martin who will be meeting in the quarter-finals.

The other semi finals will oppose British Tim Henman to Spanish Alberto Martin.

On his way to the semi-finals, Arazi rolled out French Paul-Henri Mathieu and Michel Kratochvil of Switzerland.