Key Biscayne, March 30:

Tatiana Golovin of France made the most of her home-court advantage in beating China’s Zheng Jie 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 to reach the semi-finals of the Nasdaq-100 Open here on Wednesday.

A native of Moscow and a citizen of France, Golovin moved to Miami last autumn and trained over the winter on the tournament site at Key Biscayne with Andy Roddick’s former coach, Tarik Benhabiles.

After a shaky start, Golovin looked right at home on the Crandon Park stadium court, breaking serve seven times in the final two sets. She won the last five games and matched her best showing at a Tier I event with the quarter-final win.

Her opponent will be No 4 Maria Sharapova, who hit 26 winners to beat No 10 Anastasia Myskina 6-3, 6-3. Sharapova won her two previous matches against Golovin, both on grass.

The other semi-final features top-ranked Amelie Mauresmo against Svetlana Kuznetsova.

No 3 David Nalbandian and No 6 Ivan Ljubicic will play in the men’s semi-finals on Friday. Nalbandian advanced by beating No 22 Mario Ancic of Croatia 6-2, 6-2, and Ljubicic defeated unseeded Agustin Calleri of Argentina 7-6 (4), 6-3.

No 9 James Blake will play the defending champion, top-seeded Roger Federer, for a semi-final berth. No 4 Andy Roddick, the 2004 champion, will face No 11 David Ferrer in the other quarter-final.

A replay reversal helped Ljubicic win his first-set tiebreaker, but mostly he overpowered Calleri. The 6-foot-4 Croat hit 14 aces, won 36 of 37 points on his first serve and never faced a break point.