Stosur, Dementieva advance
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July 30, 2010, Friday
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TOP seeds Samantha Stosur and Elena Dementieva made solid starts to their Bank of the West Classic campaigns with contrasting second-round victories on Wednesday.
No. 1 seed Stosur overcame American qualifier Christina McHale 6-1, 7-5 while Russian second seed Dementieva was made to work a little harder on her return from injury before edging out Japanese veteran Kimiko Date Krumm 3-6, 6-3, 6-4.
Stosur, who is ranked a career high No. 5 and top seeded in a WTA tournament for the first time, relied on her big serve and forehand to repel her 18-year-old opponent, who also served well but could not contend with the Australian's power.
"I thought I played quite well," Stosur said. "She's a good player and mixes in some spin. I got off to good start, but she stayed with me pretty well in the second."
Stosur will next face Yanina Wickmayer in the quarterfinals after the Belgian seventh seed eased past Slovakian Dominica Cibulkova 6-1, 6-4. Stosur reached her first grand slam final at the French Open in June and credits her recent success to establishing a game plan and sticking to it.
"It's not like I have changed anything dramatically overnight," she said.
"It's just a combination of everything that I have been doing over the past few years and now it's all coming together. Once you produce some good results, it instills more belief."
Dementieva was playing her first match since retiring in her French Open semifinal against eventual champion Francesca Schiavone.
The 28-year-old Russian injured a calf muscle during the tournament and was forced to pull out of Wimbledon, missing a grand slam for the first time in 11 years.
She was clearly rusty in the first set against the savvy Date Krumm but eventually found her range off the ground and was able to stretch her opponent out in rallies.
The 39-year-old Date Krumm tried to claw her way back into the third set after going down 0-3 but Dementieva was too strong with her returns and closed out the contest with a forehand winner.
Third seed Agnieszka Radwanska also advanced with a 7-6, 6-2 victory over Ukrainian Olga Savchuk.
In Los Angeles, second-seeded Sam Querrey struggled through two tough sets than breezed through the third to beat Kevin Anderson 7-6 (10), 4-6, 6-0 to open the defense of his title at the Farmers Classic.
In another second-round match, third-seeded Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus beat American wildcard Ryan Sweeting 3-6, 6-2, 6-3.
Baghdatis fired 11 aces and had the same number of winners in advancing to his fifth quarterfinal of the year.
He'll next play sixth-seeded Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia, who beat qualifier Somdev Devvarman of India 7-6 (11), 6-2. Devvarman missed a chance to break into the tour's top 100 for the first time with a victory.
No. 1 seed Stosur overcame American qualifier Christina McHale 6-1, 7-5 while Russian second seed Dementieva was made to work a little harder on her return from injury before edging out Japanese veteran Kimiko Date Krumm 3-6, 6-3, 6-4.
Stosur, who is ranked a career high No. 5 and top seeded in a WTA tournament for the first time, relied on her big serve and forehand to repel her 18-year-old opponent, who also served well but could not contend with the Australian's power.
"I thought I played quite well," Stosur said. "She's a good player and mixes in some spin. I got off to good start, but she stayed with me pretty well in the second."
Stosur will next face Yanina Wickmayer in the quarterfinals after the Belgian seventh seed eased past Slovakian Dominica Cibulkova 6-1, 6-4. Stosur reached her first grand slam final at the French Open in June and credits her recent success to establishing a game plan and sticking to it.
"It's not like I have changed anything dramatically overnight," she said.
"It's just a combination of everything that I have been doing over the past few years and now it's all coming together. Once you produce some good results, it instills more belief."
Dementieva was playing her first match since retiring in her French Open semifinal against eventual champion Francesca Schiavone.
The 28-year-old Russian injured a calf muscle during the tournament and was forced to pull out of Wimbledon, missing a grand slam for the first time in 11 years.
She was clearly rusty in the first set against the savvy Date Krumm but eventually found her range off the ground and was able to stretch her opponent out in rallies.
The 39-year-old Date Krumm tried to claw her way back into the third set after going down 0-3 but Dementieva was too strong with her returns and closed out the contest with a forehand winner.
Third seed Agnieszka Radwanska also advanced with a 7-6, 6-2 victory over Ukrainian Olga Savchuk.
In Los Angeles, second-seeded Sam Querrey struggled through two tough sets than breezed through the third to beat Kevin Anderson 7-6 (10), 4-6, 6-0 to open the defense of his title at the Farmers Classic.
In another second-round match, third-seeded Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus beat American wildcard Ryan Sweeting 3-6, 6-2, 6-3.
Baghdatis fired 11 aces and had the same number of winners in advancing to his fifth quarterfinal of the year.
He'll next play sixth-seeded Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia, who beat qualifier Somdev Devvarman of India 7-6 (11), 6-2. Devvarman missed a chance to break into the tour's top 100 for the first time with a victory.
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