Mauresmo wins in Linz
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ByEurosport
Published 28/10/2004 at 11:57 GMT
World number two Amelie Mauresmo shrugged off a thigh strain to cruise into the last eight of the Linz Open with a 6-4 6-0 win over Marta Domachowska of Poland. Elsewhere, Vera Zvonareva of Russia beat Nathalie Dechy of France for the forth time this year
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The French top seed, who missed last week's Zurich tournament because of the injury, had an average start against the 18-year-old Pole but upped her game in the second set with some confident ground strokes to destroy her opponent.
Fourth seed Vera Zvonareva earlier outfought Frenchwoman Nathalie Dechy 7-6 6-4 to make the quarter-finals.
The Russian is 11th in the WTA Tour Championships standings and has an outside chance of reaching the end-of-season Los Angeles tournament if she wins in Linz and impresses at the final event in Philadelphia next month.
The top eight play at the Tour Championships in mid-November with Serena Williams occupying the last berth, although with Justine Henin-Hardenne out for the rest of the year to recover from exhaustion ninth-placed Venus is also in contention.
Third-seeded Serena, a six-time grand slam winner, harmed her chances of qualifying when she suffered her earliest tournament defeat since April 2000 going down 7-6 6-2 to Russian qualifier Alina Jidkova in the second round on Wednesday.
The American complained of dizziness during the match. Russians Nadia Petrova and Elena Bovina won through to the quarter-finals on Wednesday.
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