England's Ross Fisher will take on Masters champion Angel Cabrera and American Anthony Kim will have a rematch with Australian Robert Allenby in the semi-finals of the Volvo World Match Play Championship in Spain on Saturday.

Fisher beat India's Jeev Milkha Singh to top his group in the new format and so made it to the last four, just as he did in the Accenture Match Play in Arizona in February.

Cabrera, runner-up to Ernie Els on the last staging of this event at Wentworth two years ago, ended the hopes of Rory McIlroy and Simon Dyson when he crushed Dyson by a massive seven-hole margin.

Kim, meanwhile, produced one of the shots of his life, a 274-yard three-wood to four feet on the final hole, to deny tournament outsider Scott Strange a place in the last four.

And with Allenby getting the win over Oliver Wilson that he needed to knock out the Englishman, he will face Kim three weeks after a controversial Presidents Cup clash.

Kim won the match 5&3 but Allenby then made late-night drinking allegations about his 24-year-old opponent.

They have spoken since and are trying to put the matter to bed, but it was perhaps written in the stars that they would face each other again at the first available opportunity.

"I've been around for 18 years in this game and I've said a lot of things and regretted a lot of things," commented Allenby, who is being watched this week by his Leeds-born 80-year-old father Don.

"A lot of things have been written that haven't come out the right way. It's a dead issue in both Anthony and my books - I'm not answering any more questions about it."

Kim just smiled when told it was Allenby he would be taking on again - and again when he was inevitably asked how he would be spending the night before their 36-hole match.

"I'm going to tell you what I'm going to do," he said.

"Dinner at 6.30 here, be done by 7.30, shower eight, internet and talk to some friends eight to nine, be in bed by 9.30!"

After two wins on the opening day, Kim had to be beaten by four holes by Strange not to progress - and that was the situation with one to play.

But he then produced his killer finish and said afterwards: "It was a special shot for me. I haven't been able to swing that way and trust my swing - and I really had to trust it. It felt so good."

Fisher is a member at Wentworth but has made his debut in the championship on the very first occasion it has not been staged there.

"It would have been great to experience it there. But it's not, and this is a great venue," he said.

"There's a long way to go, but I am in there with a chance. It's also massive for the Race to Dubai."

He is currently seventh - but top four Lee Westwood, Martin Kaymer, McIlroy and Paul Casey all failed to make it through.

Fisher was not sure of his place, though, until the final hole of the day. He was two up on Singh - and when he saw on the leaderboard that Colombian Camilo Villegas had only halved with Westwood, he was safe.

It was a good job too - because he had just hit a wild second into the crowd and was waiting for a ruling after television coverage showed a spectator picking up the ball and then putting it down again.

Westwood beat Fisher and halved with Villegas, but his first-day defeat to Singh meant he finished only third in Group D.

McIlroy beat Dyson and Henrik Stenson, but his loss to Cabrera 24 hours earlier left him second to the Argentinian in Group C.

Allenby is the only unbeaten player left, but Cabrera beat McIlroy by five and Dyson by seven and - with two majors to his name - is probably the favourite.

Fisher, though, is the only one of the quartet who qualified for the event without anyone else pulling out.

Cabrera is playing only because Els opted for the Singapore Open; Allenby is in because compatriot Geoff Ogilvy and Vijay Singh turned down spots, and Kim was given his chance when seven other Americans - Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Kenny Perry, Steve Stricker, Stewart Cink, Jim Furyk and Lucas Glover - all declined invitations.

Semi-final tee-times:

0715 and 1225 (9) Anthony Kim (USA) v (12) Robert Allenby (Aus)

0730 and 1240 (11) Angel Cabrera (Arg) v (10) Ross Fisher (Eng)

Collated results (seeded positions in brackets):

Group A

(1) Paul Casey (Eng) lost to (8) Retief Goosen (Rsa) 1 hole

(9) Anthony Kim (USA) lost to (16) Scott Strange (Aus) 3 holes

Group B

(4) Sergio Garcia (Spa) bt (5) Martin Kaymer (Ger) 4 holes

(12) Robert Allenby (Aus) bt (13) Oliver Wilson (Eng) 2 holes

Group C

(3) Henrik Stenson (Swe) bt (11) Angel Cabrera (Arg) 2 holes

(6) Rory McIlroy (NIrl) bt (14) Simon Dyson (Eng) 2 holes

(3) Henrik Stenson (Swe) lost to (6) Rory McIlroy (NIrl) 4 down

(11) Angel Cabrera (Arg) bt (14) Simon Dyson (Eng) 7 holes

Group D

(2) Lee Westwood (Eng) bt (10) Ross Fisher (Eng) 2 holes

(7) Camilo Villegas (Col) bt (15) Jeev Milkha Singh (Ind) 3 holes

(2) Lee Westwood halved with (2) Camilo Villegas (Col)

(10) Ross Fisher (Eng) bt (15) Jeev Milkha Singh (Ind) 1 hole