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Jankovic, Davydenko advance to quarterfinals at Kremlin Cup
(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-10-10 09:22
After winning the opening set in 23 minutes Russia's 24-year-old underlined her supremacy in the second, taking it at love to set up a meeting with another Slovak Dominika Cibulkova in the match for a place in the semis. "I didn't make any unforced mistakes tonignt," Zvonareva said. "I was serving and returning well." "But I know that one can have just one or two such an easy matches during the season." Top seed of the ATP section of the tournament Nikolay Davydenko of Russia barely broke sweat presenting a 56-minute masterclass to the Spaniard Guillermo Garcia-Lopez clinching a 6-1, 6-1 win on his way to the quarter-finals. "The score speaks for itself," Davydenko said. "I played confidently and controlled the match." In the match for a place in the semis Davydenko, who is seeking his year's fourth title at his home courts, will face his seventh-seeded fellow compatriot Marat Safin, who beat Frenchman Julien Benneteau 6-4, 0-6, 6-2. Another Frenchman Paul-Henri Mathieu, 2002 champion here, also battled into quarter-final round from a set down beating Dudi Sela of Israel 6-7 (3/7), 7-5, 7-6 (7/0) to face a compatriot Fabrice Santoro. Meanwhile, Serbia's Viktor Troicki upset his eighth-seeded compatriot Janko Tipsarevic ousting him in straight sets 6-3, 6-4 in one hour 22 minutes to meet Germany's Mischa Zverev, who beat Teimuraz Gabashvili of Russia 6-2, 2-6, 6-1. |
