Wozniacki, Dementieva land in New Haven quarters
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08/25/2010 - New Haven, CT (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Top-seeded Caroline Wozniacki and former U.S. Open runner-up Elena Dementieva were each second-round winners Wednesday at the $600,000 Pilot Pen Tennis event, a final hardcourt U.S. Open tune-up.
Denmark's Wozniacki, the two-time reigning New Haven champ, survived a break- filled opening set and cruised in the second to down Dominika Cibulkova, 6-4, 6-1, on Wednesday. There were five breaks in the first set, the last coming from Wozniacki when she was up 5-4.
Wozniacki is fresh off a title in Montreal on Monday and will be the top seed at the U.S. Open, which starts next Monday in New York.
The fourth-seeded 2008 Olympic gold medalist Dementieva snuck past Ukrainian Kateryna Bondarenko 7-6 (7-4), 6-7 (5-7), 6-4 in just over three hours at the Connecticut Tennis Center at Yale.
Dementieva will encounter France's Marion Bartoli in the quarterfinals.
Former top-ranked Russian and three-time major finalist Dinara Safina got past former top-10 Slovakian Daniela Hantuchova 7-6 (7-4), 7-6 (7-2) to reach the round of eight. Safina will meet fellow Russian Maria Kirilenko on Thursday.
Meanwhile, the sixth-seeded former Wimbledon runner-up Bartoli leveled Aussie Anastasia Rodionova 6-3, 6-1, seventh-seeded Italian Flavia Pennetta pasted Belarusian Olga Govortsova 6-3, 6-2 and eighth-seeded Russian Nadia Petrova pounded American qualifier Bethanie Mattek-Sands 6-3, 6-2. Petrova will battle second-seeded French Open runner-up Samantha Stosur of Australia in the quarters.
One other second-rounder saw Kirilenko clobber Swiss Timea Bacsinszky 6-3, 6-1.
The 2010 Pilot Pen champion will collect $98,500.
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