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NEW HAVEN, Connecticut: Russian fourth seed Elena Dementieva led a host of seeds into the quarter-finals of the WTA and ATP New Haven hardcourt tournament on Wednesday with a tough three-set triumph.
Dementieva outlasted Ukraine's Kateryna Bondarenko 7-6 (7/4), 6-7 (5/7), 6-4 in the final tune-up event before Monday's start of the US Open in New York, building match fitness after tearing a left calf muscle in the French Open.
Next up for Dementieva will be French sixth seed Marion Bartoli, who ousted Australian Anastasia Rodionova 6-3, 6-1.
Italian seventh seed Flavia Pennetta eliminated Belarussian Olga Govortsova 6-3, 6-2 and will face the winner of a later match between Danish top seed Caroline Wozniacki, the US Open top seed, and Slovakian lucky loser Dominika Cibulkova.
Russian eighth seed Nadia Petrova also advanced, defeating American Bethanie Mattek-Sands 6-3, 6-2 to book a date with Aussie second seed Samantha Stosur.
On the men's side, three rain-halted second-round matches were completed but the winners were looking at having to win twice in one day to reach the final eight.
The only seed in the group, Ukraine's seventh-seeded Alexandr Dolgopolov, downed American James Blake 6-4, 6-2.
Kazakh fifth seed Andrey Golubev was ousted in the third round, falling to Russian Teymuraz Gabashvili 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (9/7).
- AFP/de
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