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 | The favorites of the tournament in Cincinnati qualified for the quarterfinals17-08-2012 |
Seeded first women's tournament schedule in Cincinnati - Agnieszka Radwanska, qualified for the quarterfinals, after eliminating the U.S. Sloane Stephens with 6:1, 4:6, 6:4. Radwanska passed the third round for the first time in three attempts, having prevail over validated with wildcard Stevens, who did at the beginning of
tournament eliminates the Bulgarian Tsvetana Pironkova.
Number 2 in the scheme Serena Williams beat Urszula Radwanska (Poland) with 6:4, 6:3 and also goes to the quarterfinals. For Serena is 19th consecutive victory, but also the 12th match, winning in straight sets. So she continues unbeaten set in the final at Wimbledon, where she won in singles, then further and doubles with her sister Venus.
The Australian Samantha Stosur also had no problems and continues in the next round. No. 3 beat the Russian Ekaterina Makarova with 6:1, 6:3.
Petra Kvitova, No. 4, eliminated Peng Shuai from China with 6:2, 6:2, and the 5th Angelica Kerber (Germany) won in two sets Andrea Hlavachkova (Czech Republic) with 6:4 7:6 (7:5 ).
From the set dropped number 7 Sarah Erami (Italy), who was removed by Venus Williams after 3:6, 0:6. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova leads of Caroline Voznyatski (Denmark) with 6:3 after the before the second set started raining.