Wed Apr 9 15:59:42 2008

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Chakvetadze, Mauresmo reach third round in Florida

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Amelia Island, FL (Sports Network) - Second-seeded Russian Anna Chakvetadze and former world No. 1 French star Amelie Mauresmo were second-round winners Wednesday at the $600,000 Bausch & Lomb Championships.

Chakvetadze charged past Japanese qualifier Ayumi Morita 6-3, 6-1 on Day 3 at Amelia Island Plantation, while an 11th-seeded Mauresmo, who captured this clay-court event back in 2001, handled Romanian wild card Sorana Cirstea 7-5, 6-1.

Top-10 upsets occurred when Russian Elena Vesnina took out fifth-seeded Swiss Patty Schnyder 6-2, 2-6, 6-2 and France's Alize Cornet bounced ninth-seeded Austrian Sybille Bammer 6-1, 6-3.

In other second-round play, sixth-seeded Russian Dinara Safina subdued Ukrainian Tatiana Perebiynis 6-3, 6-3 and rising Slovakian Dominika Cibulkova upended 14th-seeded Belarusian Victoria Azarenka 7-5, 4-6, 6-2. The 18-year- old Cibulkova will tangle with Chakvetadze in the third round here on Thursday.

The 2008 Bausch & Lomb champion will pocket $95,500.