Football
Associated Press 18y

Santangelo, Kostanic move into quarterfinals

BANGALORE, India -- Third-seeded Mara Santangelo of Italy
rallied for a 5-7, 6-4, 6-3 win Thursday over Tzipora Obziler,
moving into the quarterfinals of the Bangalore Open.

Santangelo will play Yuliana Fedak of Ukraine, who advanced with
a 6-3, 6-3 win over wild-card Isha Lakhani of India.

Sixth-seeded Jelena Kostanic of Croatia defeated Kaia Kanepi of
Estonia 6-1, 6-4. She will face Maria Elena Camerin of Italy, who
defeated Russian qualifier Alla Kudryavtseva 6-1, 7-5.

Santangelo and Kostanic are the only seeded players to make the
quarterfinals. Six others were ousted, including top-seeded Sania
Mirza of India and second-seeded Shahar Peer of Israel on
Wednesday.

"It was a lot tougher than I expected," Santangelo said.
"What proved significant was that I was right there in the contest
despite losing the first set."

The other quarterfinals, Camille Pin of France will play
American Vania King. Melinda Czink of Hungary will face Alona
Bondarenko of Ukraine.

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