Pennetta, Rezai among winners
PALERMO, Italy -- Top-seeded Flavia Pennetta defeated Italian compatriot Roberta Vinci 7-5, 6-1 to reach the Palermo Open quarterfinals on Wednesday.
Need the scores from any match played in today's tournaments? Pennetta broke Vinci seven times to even their head-to-head matchups at 3.
Seventh-seeded Aravane Rezai of France also won her second-round match, topping Varvara Lepchenko of the United States 6-7 (2), 6-4, 6-2.
Sixth-seeded Ekaterina Makarova of Russia fell to Olga Govortsova of Belarus 6-2, 6-2 in 44 minutes, and 2006 runner-up Tathiana Garbin of Italy ended the winning run of Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez of Spain 6-2, 6-3. Martinez Sanchez won the Swedish Open on Saturday.
Second-seeded Patty Schnyder, making her first appearance at Palermo since she won as the top seed in 1998, defeated Russian teen Anastasia Pivovarova 6-4, 6-0.
Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press
