Ana Ivanovic petra kvitova

The Czech player Petra Kvitova ended the dream of Serbian Ana Ivanovic, and surpassed in the second round of Australia Open, the first Grand Slam of the season.

The Czech player Petra Kvitova ended the dream of Serbia´s Ana Ivanovic, and surpassed in the second round of Australia Open, the first Grand Slam of the season.

Kvitova, asserted their status as second-seeded to defeat former world number one partial 6-2, 7-6 (7 / 2) in one hour and 25 minutes of action.

The Czech racket reached 59 percent effective in their service, as well as connect seven aces perfect, committing 23 unforced errors and 30 "winners" by 53 percent, four "aces" and seven double faults in the runner-up in Melbourne 2008.

Thus, the current second best player in the world, as it did last year at this event and for the first time in his career will look to reach the semifinals of the Australian fair.

His opponent is Italy´s Sara Errani, who had never reached such instances in the first "big" campaign and defeated in the fourth round by China´s Zheng Jie 6-2 6-1 slate.

Another favorite of the China Open, the Russian Nikolay Davydenko, seeded fourth, defeated Croat Marin Cilic with a double 7-5.

The top seed of the China Open, Serbian Novak Djokovic, qualified for the quarterfinals by the absence of his rival, the American Mardy Fish, while Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki is ranked the victory of world number one ranking after beat Italy's Sara Errani.

Djokovic moved into the next round without playing because Mardy Fish, injured his left ankle, could not play the game.

The Serb played on Tuesday a first-round match that also earned him a lot of effort, as his opponent, Chinese Mao-Xin Gong, ranked 356 in the ATP world rankings and won in one hour and ten minutes by 6-1 6-3.

Djokovic's next opponent will be Frenchman Gilles Simon, who beat German Michael Berrer, by 6-7 (6), 6-4, 7-6 (4), in three hours and six minutes into the game, time that the Frenchman signed 16 aces.

Another favorite of the China Open, the Russian Nikolay Davydenko, seeded fourth, defeated Croat Marin Cilic with a double 7-5.

Davydenko will play the quarter-final against American John Isner, who, with 2.05 meters in height and serves more than 200 kilometers per hour, beat German Philipp Kohlschreiber 7-6 (3), 3-6 and 6 -3. The American had 20 aces before the Teutonic, which in the previous round defeated Spanish Fernando Verdasco, seeded sixth.

In the women, the first favorite, Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki, qualified for the quarterfinals of the tournament with a win over Italy's Sara Errani 6-4, 6-2.

Wozniacki, 20, will face the next round over Czech Petra Kvitova, who comes to beat the Estonian Kaia Kanepi 7-5, 6-7 (6-8), 6-2.

If he wins, Wozniacki will become the new world number one in the WTA rankings and move from that position to the American Serena Williams, who played just six tournaments so far this year.

Zvoraneva not fail

The second-seeded Russian Vera Zvoraneva, also spent the quarter-finals after winning 5-7, 6-4, 6-2 to compatriot Maria Kirilenko.

In the next phase, Zvoraneva will face Italian Francesca Schiavone, fifth seed, who eliminated Vera Dushevina of Russia 4-6, 6-3, 6-1.

Shahar Peer of Israel agreed to the quarterfinals by winning without difficulty to the Romanian Alexandra Dulgheru 6-1, 6-2.

In that round will face Switzerland's Timea Bacsinszky, who beat Russian Elena Vesnina 6-2, 6-3.

Serbian Ana Ivanovic, a former No. 1 in the world, won his first match in 2009 in Brisbane, Australia, and then had to answer a question about his new love.

The romance between her and Fernando Verdasco began when the Spanish were accompanied on their games and practices at the end of last season. Both say they are friends, but without going into further details.

Both parties disputed consecutive Pat Rafter in the sand. Ivanovic, the first preclasificada defeated 6-4 and 6-2 to Czech Petra Kvitova. And then Verdasco, the third head series, with the same score over Bernard Tomic, an Australian 16 years. In late November, Verdasco of Spain gave the decisive point on Argentina in the Davis Cup final.

At the press conference, still playing with Verdasco, Ivanovic was asked if a planned return to the stadium to see the Spanish. "I have a couple of things to do. Maybe later," he said. "But it's too late and I have to rest, tennis comes first."

"Here we are doing our job. We will have time to be together after the Australia Open," said Verdasco. "Now we have to play tennis and concentrate on that," he stressed ESPNdeportes.

Ivanovic, who lost the final of the Australia Open last year in a campaign in which up to first place in the WTA ranking, now face Italy's Roberta Vinci, I bowed to German Anna-Lena Groenefeld by 0-6, 6-3 and 6-1 in a clash between rival emerged from the stage.

In another match of the tournament worth $ 220,000 and is played on cement, French Amelie Mauresmo, another former queen of the professional circuit, won by 7-6 (11-9) and 7-6 (7-5) to Australian Jelena Dokić, special guest.

In the eighth-finals, Mauresmo, the fifth head of the series is measured with his compatriot Julie Coin, arrival of QUALY, who beat Belgian Yanina Wickmayer promise by 7-5, 6-7 (5-7) and 7-6 (7-3).

The Slovak Daniela Hantuchova (fourth favorite) succumbed to lose 6-7 (1-7), 6-4 and 6-0 before the Italian Sara Errani. Must now play against Bulgarian Tsvetana Pironkova, who beat Romanian Monica Niculescu in the 6-7 (2-7), 6-4 and 6-4.

Favorite other bags were the Belarussian Olga Govortsova beat Italian Francesca Schiavone, the eighth preclasificada by 7-5 and 6-2 and Samantha Stosur in the local Japanese Ai Sugiyama, ninth favorite, by 6-2 and 6-3.

Meanwhile, the Italian Tathiana Garbin was imposed by the Swede Sofia Arvidsson 6-2 and 6-3, the Czech Lucie Safarova in the Australian by Isabella Holland 6-4 and 6-3, the Hungarian Melinda Czink in the Ukrainian Alona Bondarenko by 7-6 (7-3) and 6-1 and to the Bulgarian Sesil Karatantcheva by Czech Iveta Benesova 1-6, 6-4 and 6-2.