American
Meilen Tu orchestrated the lone upset Thursday at the WTA stop in Portoroz, outlasting No. 7-seeded Czech
Iveta Benesova 6-4, 2-6, 6-4.
No. 2 seed
Anabel Medina Garrigues pasted Slovenian wildcard Masa Zec Peskiric, while two additional unseeded players gained the quarters in German
Vanessa Henke (d. Bychkova) and Greece's
Eleni Daniilidou (d. Ani from a set down).
On tap for Friday in the quarterfinals are Henke vs. Tu, Srebotnik vs. Medina Garrigues, Koukalova vs. Vinci, and Daniilidou vs. Bremond.
