Elena Dementieva defeated second-seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 in an all-Russian final at the Dubai Championship on Saturday to win her ninth career title.

It was the eighth seed's first trophy since she won in Moscow in October, while Kuznetsova suffered her second defeat in the final here, having also lost to Justine Henin in 2004.

Roddick out

Robin Soderling upset top-seeded Andy Roddick 7-6 (6), 6-3 in the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships quarterfinals, adds AP from Memphis.

Roddick won at San Jose last week and went into the quarterfinal 10-1 this season, ranked sixth in the World.

Soderling had been only 7-19 against top 10 players, a record that included a victory over No seven Richard Gasquet this week.

But the eighth-seeded Swede served up 16 aces and won all but nine points on his serve and 14 of 18 on his second serve. Soderling, the runner-up in Rotterdam last week, did not face one break point and hasn’t been broken in three matches.

Soderling will play fourth-seeded Radek Stepanek, who beat Chris Guccione of Australia 7-6 (4), 6-1. Swedish veteran Jonas Bjorkman beat American teenager Donald Young 1-6, 6-2, 7-6 (6) and will play Steve Darcis of Belgium, a 6-1, 6-0 winner over Benjamin Becker of Germany.

On the women’s side, fourth-seeded Lindsay Davenport beat qualifier Marina Erakovic of New Zealand 6-0, 6-3 in 57 minutes.  Davenport will meet fifth-seeded Olga Govortsova of Belarus in the final.

Ljubicic reaches final

Top-seeded Ivan Ljubicic reached the Zagreb Indoor final for the third year in a row by beating fellow Croat Mario Ancic 7-6, 6-4 on Friday, adds Reuters from Zagreb.

Ljubicic next meets unseeded Sergiy Stakhovsky of Ukraine, who ousted Italian Simone Bolelli 6-4, 6-4 to qualify for his first ATP final. The 28-year-old Ljubicic won here in 2006 and was beaten in the final a year later by Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis.