Thursday, September 25, 2008

Peer reaches quarters in South Korea

Peer reaches quarters in South Korea


THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SEOUL, South Korea -- Israel's Shahar Peer beat Japan's Ayumi Morita 6-4, 7-5 on Wednesday to advance to the Korea Open quarter-finals.

The second-seeded Peer will face American Jill Craybas, a 7-6 (1), 6-2 winner over Uzbekistan's Agkul Amanmuradova 7-6 (1), 6-2.

Australia's Samantha Stosur will face Russia's Ekaterina Makarova in another quarter-final. Stosur beat Germany's Sabine Lisicki 6-4, 6-7 (4), 6-3, and Makarova topped the Czech Republic's Klara Zakopalova 6-3, 6-2.

Top-seed Maria Kirilenko of Russia will face the Czech Republic's Lucie Safarova on Thursday in a second-round match.





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