THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ISTANBUL, Turkey -- Canadian Stephanie Dubois was eliminated from the Istanbul Cup after losing her second-round match to Andreja Klepac on Wednesday. Dubois, of Laval, Que., dropped a 4-6, 6-2, 7-5 decision to the Slovene. Top-seeded Elena Dementieva of Russia advanced with a 6-2, 7-6 (4) win over Liana Ungur of Romania. Dementieva will play American Jill Craybas in the third round of the clay-court tournament, a warm-up event for the French Open. The seventh-seeded Craybas advanced after beating American Vania King 6-4, 6-2. Second-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland will play Klepac in the third round after thumping Sorana Cirstea of Romania 6-0, 6-0. Third-seeded Nadia Petrova of Russia defeated Marta Domachowska of Poland 6-2, 6-2. Petrova is to play sixth-seeded Akgul Amanmuradova of Uzbekistan, who advanced by beating Aiko Nakamura of Japan 6-3, 6-3. Fourth-seeded Olga Govortsova of Belarus beat Nathalie Vierin of Italy 7-6 (3), 6-1 and next plays Tsvetana Pironkova. The eighth-seeded Bulgarian defeated Veronika Chvojkova of the Czech Republic 6-2, 6-1.
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