Top seed Martina Hingis of Switzerland put an end to Amelie Mauresmo's 17-match winning streak on Friday with a 7-5, 6-2 win over the Frenchwoman to reach the semifinals at the Family Circle Cup tennis event.

Australian Open champion Jennifer Capriati of the United States, seeded second, also moved into the semifinals by defeating unseeded Elena Likhovtseva of Russia, 7-5, 6-4. Capriati was a runner-up here in 1990 and a semifinalist in 1993.

Hingis played almost error-free tennis in ending Mauresmo's bid for a fourth straight tournament win. She committed just 10 unforced errors while Mauresmo made a whopping 44.

A two-time winner here (1997, 1999), Hingis improved her season record to 38-5 as she goes for her WTA Tour-leading fourth title of the year. She had reached 10 consecutive championship matches and won seven titles before being stopped last month in the semifinals at Indian Wells, California by Belgium's Kim Clijsters.

Last week, Hingis suffered a quarterfinal loss to Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario at the Bausch & Lomb Championships in Amelia Island. It marked the first time since August 2000 she failed to advance to the semifinals.

Hingis will meet third seed Conchita Martinez of Spain in the semifinals. The two-time champion defeated 10th-seeded American Amy Frazier, 6-3, 6-1.

Mauresmo, seeded seventh, suffered just her second loss in 24 matches this season and first since falling to American Venus Williams in the fourth round of the Australian Open in January.

Capriati's semifinal opponent will be unseeded Marlene Weingartner of Germany, who advanced to her second semifinal of the year by upending fourth seed Amanda Coetzer of South Africa, 6-4, 7-6 (7-3). The 21-year-old Weingartner was a semifinalist at Auckland, New Zealand in January.

First prize at this Tier I event is $178,000.