WIMBLEDON, England -- Jennifer Capriati's Grand Slam hopes ended Thursday when her game fell apart on Centre Court at Wimbledon.

	Jennifer Capriati said she won't let her semifinal loss to Justine Henin ruin a great year.

Justine Henin, a 19-year-old Belgian, upset Capriati 2-6, 6-4, 6-2 to reach Saturday's final, where she will meet defending champion Venus Williams.

Williams stayed alive for a second consecutive title at the All-England Club by beating 1999 champion Lindsay Davenport 6-2, 6-7 (1), 6-1 in the second semifinal, a rematch of last year's championship match.

"I feel like one isn't enough. I've got to keep getting more," Williams said. "I have a little trophy case at home I've got to fill up."

Henin, a French Open semifinalist who beat Williams in their only meeting -- on clay in May at the German Open in Berlin -- stands in her way.

"I think that now I have all my chances to win this tournament," Henin said. "I believe it."

She ended Capriati's streak of 19 consecutive victories in Grand Slam matches. Now she can ruin Williams' chance to become the first woman with back-to-back championships on the Wimbledon grass since Steffi Graf in 1995-96.

"For me, it's not about making history," Williams said. "It's just about trying to win Wimbledon 2001."

Capriati was headed for a shot at history, winning the first set against Henin in just 21 minutes. But the winner of the Australian Open on hardcourt and the French Open on clay couldn't come through on grass. The other Grand Slam tournament, the U.S. Open, starts in late August.

"Everyone was making a big deal of the Grand Slam but me," Capriati said. "So I'm just pretty happy with the way the year's gone so far. I mean, it's hard to win one Grand Slam."

She also had a chance to match Graf, the last player to win the four major tournaments in the same year. Graf did it in 1988, the fifth player to sweep the events.

Henin made sure Capriati didn't do it this year.

She battered Capriati with strong backhands and effective volleys on a day when a shower stopped play briefly in the third set.

Who is Justine Henin?

Age: 19 Residence: Marloie, Belgium Singles titles: 4 Ranked: No. 9 Her name is pronounced EN-ah. Making her second appearance at Wimbledon. She lost in first round to Aranxta Sanchez-Vicario in her first appearance. Defeated No. 1 seed and countrywoman Kim Clijsters for title at 's-Hertogenbosch on grass last month to avenge a semifinal loss at the French Open. Henin won her first 13 matches of the year taking titles at Gold Coast and Canberra before falling to No. 4 seed Monica Seles at the Australian Open 4-6, 6-4, 6-4. Henin upset Venus Williams in third round at Berlin to reach the semifinals where she retired against Jennifer Capriati in the third set. Coached by Carlos Rodriguez. Source: WTA

Ranked ninth in the world, Henin overcame foot blisters to become the first Belgian in a Wimbledon final. She received treatment with Capriati ahead 2-1 in the second set, then won 11 of the remaining 15 games.

"It's really painful. It's horrible," Henin said. But she felt better after seeing a trainer. "I didn't think about my blister after that. I said, `I'm in the semis, go and try. Don't feel the pain."'

That was a turning point.

"Before that, I was doing well in the second set and I was still playing my game," said Capriati, ranked fourth in the world. "All of a sudden, a few games there late in the second set, she was on her game."

Henin led 4-1 in the third set when play was suspended by a light rain.

"I was a little bit afraid because she had the time to think what she's going to do," Henin said. They went to the clubhouse and returned to the sun-splashed court 16 minutes later.

Henin served for the match with a 5-2 lead. She went ahead 40-15, double match point, but lost the first with a wide forehand.

But her next serve was the last. The match ended and Henin exulted when Capriati hit a forehand from the baseline that sailed wide.

Henin flipped her racket in the air in tribute to her mother who died when Henin was 12, clutched the top of her white cap with her hands and smiled broadly. Capriati, showing little emotion, shook hands at the net and quickly left with her tennis bag slung over her shoulder.

That scene seemed extremely unlikely in the first set.

"I came out playing great," Capriati said. "Maybe I thought it was going to be too easy and maybe I just lost my concentration."

She lost only four points in her first four service games lasting a total of eight minutes.

Capriati seemed ready for another big stride in a career sidetracked several years ago by a shoplifting arrest and a stay in a drug rehab center. But she also was the youngest player to win a Wimbledon match when she did it in 1990 at 14.

The rain only delayed her setback. After play resumed, Henin needed just three games to complete her victory.

"She's always had the good backhand," Capriati said. "Today it wasn't only her backhand, it was everything."

That concerns Williams.

Henin, she said, "is a very good player. She likes the grass (court) and you have to be playing very well to beat Jennifer Capriati in 2001."

Like Capriati, Williams faltered after a strong start. Williams lost the second set, but unlike Capriati, was dominant in the third -- her forehand woes gone along with Davenport's ability to come up with big shots at critical moments.

"I don't want to be too down leaving here," said Davenport who won a Wimbledon tuneup at Eastbourne after a three-month layoff due to a knee injury. "There's no sense of making a huge deal about it."

She had fought back from a 4-1 second-set deficit, forced a tiebreaker and won that 7-1.

But the momentum shifted quickly as Williams broke Davenport's first two serves and went up 3-0, then 5-1.

Davenport served the last game and led 40-15, but a double fault and a baseline backhand that flew long brought it to deuce. Davenport then hit another baseline shot long and lost on an exchange at the net that Williams finished with a crosscourt, backhand volley that hit the net cord.

Her sister Serena, eliminated by Capriati in the quarterfinals, "called me and she said, `bring the title home,' " Venus said. "So I feel pressured."

In Friday's men's matches, Andre Agassi meets Patrick Rafter in the semifinals for the third consecutive year while Tim Henman meets three-time runner-up Goran Ivanisevic for the other berth in Sunday's final. In the men's competition, Agassi beat Nicolas Escude 6-7, 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 in one of Wednesday's quarterfinals.

In the others, Rafter beat Thomas Enqvist 6-1, 6-3, 7-6 (5), Ivanisevic topped Marat Safin 7-6 (2), 7-5, 3-6, 7-6, and Henman beat Roger Federer, 19, who dethroned seven-time champion Pete Sampras two days earlier. But Henman, a 26-year-old Englishman surrounded by Union Jacks in the stands, beat Federer 7-5, 7-6 (6), 2-6, 7-6 (6).