Date:04/01/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/01/04/stories/2007010413922100.htm

Sport - Tennis

Ivanovic eases into last eight

GOLD COAST: Serbia's Ana Ivanovic stayed on track for a quarterfinal meeting with Martina Hingis after beating Milagros Sequera of Venezuela 6-1, 6-2 in the Australian women's hardcourt tennis championship here on Wednesday.

The results: At Gold Coast: WTA Mondial Australian women's Hardcourts: Second round: Shahar Peer bt Olga Poutchkova 6-3, 6-2; Ana Ivanovic bt Milagros Sequera 6-1, 6-2.

At Adelaide: ATP Next Generation Adelaide International (round-robin): Paul Goldstein bt Peter Luczak 7-6(8), 6-1; Florian Mayer bt Frank Dancevic 6-4, 6-4; Juan Martin Del Potro bt Jan Hernych 6-2, 6-4; Arnaud Clement bt Benjamin Becker 7-5, 6-1; Igor Kunitsyn bt Martin Vassallo Arguelo 6-4, 6-2; Radek Stepanek bt Evgeny Korolev 4-6, 6-2, 6-2.

At Auckland: WTA ASB Classic: Second round: Emilie Loit bt Marion Bartoli 7-5, 6-4; Paola Suarez bt Sun Tiantian 7-5, 6-4; Eleni Daniilidou bt Marina Erakovic 6-4, 2-6, 6-4; Jelena Jankovic bt Emma Laine 6-2, 6-1; Virginie Razzano bt Daniela Hantuchova 6-1, 7-5; Vera Zvonareva bt Laura Granville 6-4, 6-1; Camille Pin bt Yvonne Meusburger 2-6, 6-3, 6-3. Doubles (first round): Shikha Uberoi (Ind) & Hsieh Su-wei (Taiwan) bt Gisela Dulko & Meilen Tu 2-1, retd.

At Doha: ATP Qatar ExxonMobil Open: Second round: Andy Murray bt Christophe Rochus 6-1, 6-3; Max Mirnyi bt Marco Chiudinelli 6-3, 6-3. First round: Younes El Aynaoui (Mar) bt Thomas Johansson (Swe) 7-6(5), 7-6(1); Max Mirnyi (Blr) bt Stanislas Wawrinka (Sui) 5-7, 6-4, 6-4; Federico Luzzi (Ita) bt Jurgen Melzer (Aut) 5-7, 6-4, 7-5; Marco Chiudinelli (SUI) bt Tomas Cakl (Cze) 6-2, 6-2; Ivan Ljubicic (Cro) bt Denis Gremelmayr (Ger) 6-1, 6-2; Olivier Rochus (Bel) bt Sebastien Grosjean (Fra) 6-4, 6-4. — Agencies