Medina Garrigues sneaks into Fes quarters

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04/29/2009 - Fes, Morocco (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Top-seeded 2008 runner-up Anabel Medina Garrigues barely won her second-round match Wednesday at the $220,000 Moroccan Grand Prix.

The Spanish Medina Garrigues snuck past Czech Klara Zakopalova 1-6, 7-6 (7-1), 6-3 on the red clay at Fes Royal Tennis Club. Medina Garrigues was last year's Fes runner-up to Argentine Gisela Dulko.

Medina Garrigues' quarterfinal opponent on Thursday will be fellow Spaniard Lourdes Dominguez Lino, who came from behind to beat Brit Anne Keothavong 4-6, 7-5, 6-3 on Day 3 here.

Second-seeded Russian Alisa Kleybanova handled Slovakian Jarmila Groth 6-4, 6-1, while an upset came when Hungarian Melinda Czink ousted third-seeded rising Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 7-6 (7-1), 3-6, 6-3.

Two more upsets occurred when Slovenian qualifier Polona Hercog humbled seventh-seeded Italian Roberta Vinci 6-2, 6-4 and Czech Lucie Hradecka dismissed eighth-seeded Israeli Shahar Peer 6-4, 6-1. Vinci was a titlist in Barcelona two weeks ago.

Sixth-seeded Russian Ekaterina Makarova avoided the upset bug by pasting Japan's Akiko Morigami 6-0, 6-1, while one other second-rounder saw Poland's Marta Domachowska top Spanish lucky-loser Eva Fernandez-Brugues 6-4, 6-4.

Thursday's other quarters will pit Kleybanova against Hercog, Makarova versus Domachowska and Czink against Hradecka.

This week's champion will collect $37,000.

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