Second-seeded Serena Williams eased into the quarter-finals of the two million-dollar WTA hardcourt tournament here on Thursday with a straight sets victory over Ukrainian Alona Bondarenko. Williams, the reigning Wimbledon, Australian Open and US Open champion, needed only 64 minutes to subdue Bondarenko 6-1, 6-4.
The American exacted a bit of familial revenge after third-seeded Venus Williams was eliminated in the second round by Alona's sister, Kateryna Bondarenko. Kateryna Bondarenko's run came to an end on Thursday at the hands of 14th-seeded Pole Agnieszka Radwanska.
Radwanska was up 7-5, 5-3 and 40-0 when rain stopped play, and when the match resumed she duly finished off a 7-5, 6-3 victory. In the quarters, she'll face former world number one Maria Sharapova, who shrugged off a rain delay to oust seventh-seeded fellow Russian Vera Zvonareva 6-2, 7-6 (7/3).
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