Top seed Medina Garrigues advances
FEZ, Morocco -- Top-seeded Anabel Medina Garrigues advanced to the quarterfinals of the Grand Prix SAR on Wednesday by rallying to beat Klara Zakopalova of the Czech Republic 1-6, 7-6 (1), 6-3.
Need the scores from any match played in today's tournaments? Medina Garrigues, who lost last year's final to Gisela Dulko, had her serve broken eight times but held on to set up an all-Spanish match against Lourdes Dominguez Lino.
Dominguez Lino had also come back from a set down to beat Anne Keothavong 4-6, 7-5, 6-3.
Second-seeded Alisa Kleybanova and sixth-seeded Ekaterina Makarova also advanced. Both Russian players won in straight sets, with Kleybanova defeating Jarmila Groth of Slovakia 6-4, 6-1, and Makarova beating Akiko Morigami of Japan 6-0, 6-1.
Third-seeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia, No. 7 Roberta Vinci of Italy and No. 8 Shahar Peer of Israel were all eliminated in the second round by unseeded players. Melinda Czink of Hungary beat Pavlyuchenkova 7-6 (1), 3-6, 6-3; Czech player Lucie Hradecka defeated Peer 6-4, 6-1; and Polona Hercog of Slovenia beat Vinci 6-2, 6-4.
Also, Marta Domachowska of Poland beat Eva Fernandez-Brugues of Spain 6-4, 6-4.
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