Posted at 7:28 a.m., Thursday, July 26, 2007
Tennis: Schiavone advances to at Gastein Ladies
Associated Press
BAD GASTEIN, Austria — Top-seeded Francesca Schiavone beat Virginia Ruano Pascual of Spain 6-4, 2-6, 6-1 today to advance to the quarterfinals of the Gastein Ladies.Schiavone, who broke serve four times in the first set, will play sixth-seeded Agnes Szavay of Hungary, who beat Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia 7-5, 6-0.
Szavay, who won in Palermo last week, won eight straight games after losing serving ahead 5-4 in the first set.
Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez of Spain saved three match points before beating Anna-Lena Groenefeld of Germany 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (6).
Groenefeld served for the match at 5-4 in the third set and led 6-3 in the tiebreaker before Martinez Sanchez won five straight points.
Also, Kaia Kanepi of Estonia beat Klara Zakopalova of the Czech Republic 6-3, 6-4. She now plays the 134th-ranked Renata Voracova of the Czech Republic, who beat Edina Gallovits of Romania 6-2, 6-4.
