Pennetta secured the first point for the home country with a 6-3, 6-1 rout of Alexa Glatch before Schiavone followed with a 7-6 (7-2), 6-2 victory over Melanie Oudin.

The Americans, appearing in their first Fed Cup final since 2003, will need to sweep Sunday's reverse singles and take the ensuing doubles match to claim the title. With a team featuring the 132nd-ranked player in the world in Glatch and the 49th-ranked Oudin, an 18th Fed Cup crown -- and first since 2000 -- appears unlikely.

Valencia, Spain

Total Prize Money: $2,980,000

Andy Murray (1) vs. Fernando Verdasco (4) Nikolay Davydenko (2) leads Mikhail Youzhny, 1-0

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The top-seeded Bartoli cruised to a 6-1, 6-3 victory over Japan's Kimiko Date Krumm, while Rezai notched a 6-2, 6-3 triumph over Spain's Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez.

Bartoli will play in her fourth final of 2009 and will try for her third title of the year. She won previously in Monterrey and Stanford, while losing in her first event of the season at Brisbane back in January.

Basel, Switzerland

Total Prize Money: $2,590,000

Roger Federer (1) vs. Marco Chiudinelli Novak Djokovic (2) vs. Radek Stepanek (5), 4-4

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Reggio Calabria, Italy

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Flavia Pennetta leads Alexa Glatch, 3-1 Francesca Schiavone vs. Melanie Oudin

Flavia Pennetta vs. Melanie Oudin Francesca Schiavone vs. Alexa Glatch

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Bali, Indonesia

Total Prize Money: $600,000

Marion Bartoli (1) leads Kimiko Date Krumm (12), 6-1, 1-0 Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez (6) vs. Aravane Rezai (10)

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The world No. 1 Federer dismissed Russian qualifier Evgeny Korolev 6-3, 6-2 at St.

Jakobshalle.

Basel, Switzerland

Total Prize Money: $2,590,000

Roger Federer (1) leads Evgeny Korolev, 5-2 Novak Djokovic (2) def. Stanislas Wawrinka (6), 3-6, 7-6 (7-5), 6-2 Radek Stepanek (5) def. Marin Cilic (4), 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 Marco Chiudinelli def. Richard Gasquet, 6-1, 6-3

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Bartoli went 2-0 and captured this week's A Group with a 6-3, 6-2 victory over seventh-seeded Israeli Shahar Peer (1-1) in Friday's round-robin action on the indoor hardcourts at the Bali International Convention Centre.

The former Wimbledon runner-up Bartoli will face 39-year-old Japanese Kimiko Date Krumm (1-1) in Saturday's final four. The 12th-seeded Date Krumm wound up capturing this week's three-woman C Group.

Glatch, ranked 132nd in the world, was forced into playing singles this week when world No.

1 American superstar Serena Williams announced her withdrawal from this week's final last week.

Valencia, Spain

Total Prize Money: $2,980,000

Andy Murray (1) vs. Albert Montanes Nikolay Davydenko (2) vs. Guillermo Garcia-Lopez Fernando Verdasco (4) vs. Tommy Robredo (7) Gilles Simon (5) leads Mikhail Youzhny, 1-0

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Bali, Indonesia

Total Prize Money: $600,000

Marion Bartoli (1) vs. Shahar Peer (7) Samantha Stosur (2) leads Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez (6), 4-3 Yanina Wickmayer (3) vs. Anabel Medina Garrigues (5) Sabine Lisicki (4) vs. Melinda Czink (8)

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The world No. 4 Murray held off Argentine Leonardo Mayer 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 on Day 4 here. The Scotsman prevailed in 2 hours, 22 minutes, with the help of eight aces and three service breaks.

Murray's quarterfinal opponent on Friday will be Spain's own Albert Montanes.

The 12th-seeded 39-year-old Date Krumm straight-setted Medina Garrigues in 6-4, 6-3 fashion on the indoor hardcourts at the Bali International Convention Centre.

A milder upset came when a 10th-seeded Rezai topped eighth-seeded Hungarian Melinda Czink 6-3, 7-5 to improve to 2-0 for the week and move into the final four here.

The 12th-seeded 39-year-old Date Krumm straight-setted Medina Garrigues in 6-4, 6-3 fashion on the indoor hardcourts at the Bali International Convention Centre.

A milder upset came when 10th-seeded Frenchwoman Aravane Rezai topped eighth- seeded Hungarian Melinda Czink 6-3, 7-5.

Basel, Switzerland

Total Prize Money: $2,590,000

Novak Djokovic (2) vs. Jan Hernych Marin Cilic (4) vs. Viktor Troicki Stanislas Wawrinka (6) vs. Jarkko Nieminen Evgeny Korolev vs. Jeremy Chardy John Isner vs. Richard Gasquet Michael Lammer leads Marco Chiudinelli, 6-2, 0-1

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Valencia, Spain

Total Prize Money: $2,980,000

Andy Murray (1) vs. Leonardo Mayer Nikolay Davydenko (2) vs. Juan Monaco Fernando Verdasco (4) vs. Janko Tipsarevic Tommy Robredo (7) vs. Feliciano Lopez David Ferrer (8) vs. Albert Montanes Mikhail Youzhny leads Pablo Cuevas, 1-0

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Bali, Indonesia

Total Prize Money: $600,000

Anabel Medina Garrigues (5) vs. Kimiko Date Krumm (12) Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez (6) vs. Agnes Szavay (9) Shahar Peer (7) leads Magdalena Rybarikova (11), 6-1 Melinda Czink (8) vs. Aravane Rezai (10)

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Federer brushed aside Italian Andreas Seppi 6-3, 6-3 in a mere 61 minutes at St. Jakobshalle.

The world No.

Basel, Switzerland

Total Prize Money: $2,590,000

Roger Federer (1) vs. Andreas Seppi Radek Stepanek (5) vs. Florent Serra, 3-6, 7-6 (7-1), 2-2

Fernando Gonzalez (3) vs. John Isner Marin Cilic (4) def. Philipp Petzschner, 6-4, 6-4 Stanislas Wawrinka (6) def. Ivan Ljubicic, 6-7 (5-7), 6-3, 6-4 Jeremy Chardy def. James Blake (7), 7-6 (7-4), 6-7 (6-8), 6-4 Richard Gasquet def. Horacio Zeballos, 7-6 (7-3), 6-4

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Bartoli (1-0) handled 11th-seeded Slovakian Magdalena Rybarikova 6-4, 6-4, while Stosur (1-0) held off ninth-seeded Hungarian Agnes Szavay 6-2, 3-6, 6-1 on the indoor hardcourts at the Bali International Convention Centre.

Meanwhile, third-seeded Belgian Yanina Wickmayer (1-0) got past 12th-seeded Japanese veteran Kimiko Date Krumm 7-6 (7-5), 6-3 and 10th-seeded Frenchwoman Aravane Rezai (1-0) upset fourth-seeded German Sabine Lisicki 1-6, 6-3, 6-4.

Valencia, Spain

Total Prize Money: $2,980,000

Tomas Berdych leads Gilles Simon (5), 2-1 Gael Monfils (6) vs. Guillermo Garcia-Lopez

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (3) vs. Mikhail Youzhny Fernando Verdasco (4) vs. Oscar Hernandez Janko Tipsarevic vs. Victor Hanescu Alberto Martin vs. Feliciano Lopez

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Bali, Indonesia

Total Prize Money: $600,000

Marion Bartoli (1) vs. Magdalena Rybarikova (11) Samantha Stosur (2) vs. Agnes Szavay (9) Yanina Wickmayer (3) leads Kimiko Date Krumm (12), 7-6 (7-5), 2-3 Sabine Lisicki (4) vs. Aravane Rezai (10)

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Up next for the world No. 3 Djokovic will be Czech Jan Hernych.

Meanwhile, wild card and Swiss crowd favorite Marco Chiudinelli upended eighth-seeded German Philipp Kohlschreiber 7-6 (7-5), 3-6, 7-5 and Finnish veteran Jarkko Nieminen dismissed France's Julien Benneteau 7-5, 6-2.

"I did a test because I suspected that I had swine flu.

The test was positive," Haas said. "Of course, it was a shock for me." The 31-year-old German, however, said he is already feeling better.