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With the $40,000 purse at stake, Hiromi Abe will beat Eri Shimizu to reach the W50 Nanao semifinal on September 24 in Nanao, Japan. Abe will use her higher WTA ranking of 356 against Shimizu's 434 and will exploit the carpet surface in the quarter-final showdown. The win will avenge Abe's prior 2-0…