Clijsters has easy time in reaching Cincy QFs
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08/12/2010 -
Mason, OH (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Fourth-seeded Belgian Kim Clijsters breezed into
the quarterfinals with a straight-set victory Thursday at the $2 million
Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open, a hardcourt U.S. Open Series
event.
The former world No. 1 Clijsters, the reigning U.S. Open champion, took down
American Christina McHale 6-1, 6-1 in just 63 minutes. She will now square off
against 11th-seeded Italian Flavia Pennetta in the quarters.
In earlier action, top-seeded and defending champion Jelena Jankovic
and U.S. Open runner-up Caroline Wozniacki were third-round upset victims.
The former U.S. Open runner-up Jankovic was stunned by Uzbekistan's Akgul
Amanmuradova 7-6 (7-3), 6-4 in 1 hour, 22 minutes. Jankovic defeated fellow
former top-ranked star Dinara Safina, of Russia, in last year's Cincinnati
finale.
Meanwhile, former Wimbledon runner-up Marion Bartoli upended the second-seeded
Wozniacki in 6-4, 6-1 fashion on the hardcourts at the Lindner Family Tennis
Center. The 16th-seeded Bartoli drove out Wozniacki in 1 hour, 21 minutes by
blasting nine aces and tallying four service breaks.
Wozniacki was fresh off her title in Copenhagen in her home country of Denmark
last week.
Former world No. 1 star Maria Sharapova reached the quarterfinals here on Day
4. The 10th seed posted a mild upset by leveling seventh-seeded Pole Agnieszka
Radwanska 6-2, 6-3 in just over an hour-and-a-half to set-up a quarterfinal
match against the French Bartoli. Sharapova broke Radwanska five times on
another hot day here.
More upsets came when Pennetta took out sixth-seeded Wimbledon runner-up Vera
Zvonareva 6-4, 6-3, 12th-seeded Belgian Yanina Wickmayer overcame eighth-
seeded Chinese Li Na 2-6, 6-2, 7-6 (7-4) and Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
dismissed 13th-seeded Israeli Shahar Peer 5-7, 6-4, 6-4. The Russian Zvonareva
was the Cincinnati champ back in 2006.
Wickmayer will meet Pavlyuchenkova in the round of eight.
Also on Day 4, former world No. 1 Ana Ivanovic drubbed Russian Elena Vesnina
6-0, 6-3. Ivanovic will face the 6-foot-3 Amanmuradova on Friday.
This week's champ will take home $350,000.
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