Hot Wozniacki eyes top spot
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October 7, 2010, Thursday
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DEFENDING Champion Novak Djokovic enjoyed a free ride into the quarterfinals of the China Open in Beijing yesterday, while women's top seed Caroline Wozniacki stood one match away from toppling Serena Williams as world No. 1.
Wozniacki dispatched Italy's Sara Errani 6-4, 6-2 in the second round and faces an anxious 24 hours before facing the Czech Republic's Petra Kvitora. A win in the next round will mean she will become the first Dane to top the tennis rankings.
But the 20-year-old - who has yet to win a grand slam - refused to get distracted by the ranking issue after she trampled a hapless Errani with a barrage of powerful baseline shots.
"I don't think about it. I don't know how many matches I have to win to become No. 1," Wozniacki told reporters after her easy win.
"Tomorrow is just another match, and hopefully I can win it and pull through."
Fellow top seed, Djokovic, reached the last eight of the men's event without hitting a ball yesterday after American Mardy Fish pulled out with an ankle injury just hours before the match.
"Mardy damaged his left ankle during his first round game and went to hospital for a scan. But it's not fractured as first feared," an ATP official told reporters.
Fish's misfortune meant Djokovic could enjoy a relaxing day in the Chinese capital on a day when other competitors tried to play through the smoggy conditions described as "hazardous" by the US Embassy in Beijing.
Second seed Vera Zvonareva booked her place in the last eight after downing fellow Russian Maria Kirilenko 5-7, 6-4, 6-2 in a two-hour, 39-minute tussle.
"My shot choices are not as good as I want them to be at the moment so I'm making a too many unforced errors, especially in the first set," said Zvonareva, runner-up at Wimbledon and US Open.
Men's fourth seed Nikolay Davydenko struggled to tame towering Croatian Marin Cilic, before winning 7-5, 7-5.
"It was a very good match for me. My baseline control was good and I played fast as I believed that was the way to win today," said the Russian whose next test will be against another beanpole, American John Isner.
Isner, who is best known for winning the longest ever tennis match 70-68 in the fifth set at this year's Wimbledon, enjoyed a rather brisk workout when he tamed fellow big server Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany 7-6 (3), 3-6, 6-3 in two hours and 13 minutes.
But German qualifier Michael Berrer, who beat fifth seed Tomas Berdych in the previous round, fell to Gilles Simon, 7-6 (8), 4-6, 6-7 (4).
Wozniacki dispatched Italy's Sara Errani 6-4, 6-2 in the second round and faces an anxious 24 hours before facing the Czech Republic's Petra Kvitora. A win in the next round will mean she will become the first Dane to top the tennis rankings.
But the 20-year-old - who has yet to win a grand slam - refused to get distracted by the ranking issue after she trampled a hapless Errani with a barrage of powerful baseline shots.
"I don't think about it. I don't know how many matches I have to win to become No. 1," Wozniacki told reporters after her easy win.
"Tomorrow is just another match, and hopefully I can win it and pull through."
Fellow top seed, Djokovic, reached the last eight of the men's event without hitting a ball yesterday after American Mardy Fish pulled out with an ankle injury just hours before the match.
"Mardy damaged his left ankle during his first round game and went to hospital for a scan. But it's not fractured as first feared," an ATP official told reporters.
Fish's misfortune meant Djokovic could enjoy a relaxing day in the Chinese capital on a day when other competitors tried to play through the smoggy conditions described as "hazardous" by the US Embassy in Beijing.
Second seed Vera Zvonareva booked her place in the last eight after downing fellow Russian Maria Kirilenko 5-7, 6-4, 6-2 in a two-hour, 39-minute tussle.
"My shot choices are not as good as I want them to be at the moment so I'm making a too many unforced errors, especially in the first set," said Zvonareva, runner-up at Wimbledon and US Open.
Men's fourth seed Nikolay Davydenko struggled to tame towering Croatian Marin Cilic, before winning 7-5, 7-5.
"It was a very good match for me. My baseline control was good and I played fast as I believed that was the way to win today," said the Russian whose next test will be against another beanpole, American John Isner.
Isner, who is best known for winning the longest ever tennis match 70-68 in the fifth set at this year's Wimbledon, enjoyed a rather brisk workout when he tamed fellow big server Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany 7-6 (3), 3-6, 6-3 in two hours and 13 minutes.
But German qualifier Michael Berrer, who beat fifth seed Tomas Berdych in the previous round, fell to Gilles Simon, 7-6 (8), 4-6, 6-7 (4).
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