Wed May 21 16:51:25 2008

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Bondarenko reaches quarters; Bartoli bows out in Strasbourg

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Strasbourg, France (Sports Network) - Second-seeded Ukrainian Alona Bondarenko moved into the quarterfinals, while top-seeded French favorite Marion Bartoli came up a second-round loser Wednesday at the $175,000 Strasbourg International tennis tournament, a final clay-court tuneup for the French Open.

Bondarenko handled Romanian Edina Gallovits 6-4, 6-4, while the 2007 Wimbledon runner-up Bartoli was ousted by Chinese Shuai Peng 6-1, 1-0, as Bartoli retired with a right wrist injury at Ligue d'Alsace de Tennis.

Four other seeds reached the round of eight, as No. 4 Italian Flavia Pennetta held off France's Stephanie Cohen-Aloro 6-3, 4-6, 6-3; No. 5 Slovenian Katarina Srebotnik subdued Ukrainian qualifier Tatiana Perebiynis 7-6 (7-4), 6-0; No. 6 Spaniard Anabel Medina Garrigues, the defending champion here, whipped Croatian qualifier Ana Vrljic 6-1, 6-1; and No. 7 Japanese Ai Sugiyama drilled Czech Petra Kvitova 6-4, 6-3. The two-time Strasbourg titlist Medina Garrigues stunned Frenchwoman Amelie Mauresmo in last year's Strasbourg finale and also titled here in 2005.

In other second-round action, Swiss Timea Bacsinszky upended eighth-seeded Chinese Zi Yan 6-2, 5-7, 6-4 and Taipei's Yung-Jan Chan overcame Aussie Casey Dellacqua 2-6, 6-1, 6-1.

Friday's quarters will pit Bondarenko against Bacsinszky, Pennetta versus Medina Garrigues, Srebotnik against Peng and Sugiyama versus Chan.