Russia's Zvonareva progresses to Australian Open quarter-finals
14:44, 24 January 2011
MOSCOW. January 24. KAZINFORM Russian tennis star Vera Zvonareva defeated the Czech Republic's Iveta Benesova in the fourth round of the Australian Open championship, making it into the quarter-finals. Kazinform refers to RIA Novosti.
Zvonareva, seed number 2, won 6-4, 6-1 over Benesova in 76 minutes. The Russian was down 2-4 in the beginning of the first set, but won the next four games, and then grabbed a comfortable victory in the second set.
The 26-year-old tennis player will now compete with Czech Petra Kvitova, who won over Italy's Flavia Pennetta 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 on Monday, for a place in the championship's semi-finals.
A duet of Russian Nadia Petrova and Liezel Huber of the United States won on Monday over Romania's Alexandra Dulgheru and Slovakia's Magdalena Rybarikova 6-3, 6-2 in the third round. The match lasted 74 minutes. Kazinform cites RIA Novosti. See www.en.rian.ru for full version