Top-seeded Italian
Flavia Pennetta (d. Schruff) and No. 2
Meghann Shaughnessy (d. (WC) Torres Sandoval) won their openers to lead the seeds Wednesday at the WTA stop in Acapulco.
Two seeds advanced into the quarterfinals on the dirt in (3)
Emilie Loit (d. French countrywoman Beltrame) and (5) Dally Randriantefy (d. Perebiynis), while orchestrating upsets on the red were Colombia's
Catalina Castano (d. (4) Jidkova, coming from a set down) and American
Lilia Osterloh (d. (7) Domachowska).
Unseeded winners Wednesday were Swiss
Emmanuelle Gagliardi (d. Pin) and Slovak
Ludmila Cervanova (d. Irvin, baking two breadsticks 1-and-1).
Scheduled for Thursday on the dirt are Parra Santonja vs. Shaughnessy, Gagliardi vs. Ant. Serra Zanetti, and Pennetta vs. Diaz-Oliva.
