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Carla Suárez vs Kirilenko, highlight of the second round.
The two top-50 ranked players face each other on Thursday from 6pm (Televised on Teledeporte 8pm)
Núria Llagostera continues winning with force at Barcelona KIA'08, the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour tournament that is being contested at the David Lloyd Club Turó. The Majorcan player, who in the first round eliminated the number one seed, Shahar Peer, has today beaten Eloisa Compostizo by 63 60 in little more than an hours play. Llagostera, in today's match, which was not a noteworthy performance, will cross into the quarters-finals with the sixth seed, the Italian Sara Errani. Thursday will see the hotly contested matchup between Carla Suárez and Maria Kirilenko..
The second round opened up on Wednesday with the victory of María José Martínez over the fifth seed, Pauline Parmentier. The player from Yecla was very consistent with her first serves, not giving any option to her French opponenet, whom she overcame by 62 64 in 80 minutes of play. Martínez will head into the quarter-finals with the winner of the match between Arantxa Parra and the fifth seed, Lucie Safarova.
Errani did not fault, and moves firmly onwards, needing only two sets to defeat Lepchenko 64 75. In another match played on Wednesday, the French player Cohen-Aloro beat the Slovak Rybarikova 76 (3) 60. The second round will be completed tomorrow with the matches of Safarova-Parra, Ivanova-Kondratieva, Zakopalova-Gallovits and Suárez-Kirilenko.
Duel of promises
The main draw at Barcelona KIA'08 anticipated a spectacular second round duel providing Maria Kirilenko and Carla Suárez overcame their first round opponents. Both Kirilenko and Suárez made it through, beating Molik and Osterloh respecitvely and tomorrow will play in the star match at these International Championships of Women's Tennis of Spain.
Kirilenko and Suárez will jump to the beaten earth|land from the central clue|track of the David Lloyd Club Turó from 18:00 hours (televised by Teledeporte in the 20:00). It|He|She will be the first confrontation between the two young players, both in the Top 50 of the world-wide circuit. The Russian, of 21 years, adds up in its|his|her|their career three titles of the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour. The Spaniard, of 19, KIA'08 arrives at Barcelona after a brilliant performance Roland Garros, where fourth finalist was, and with the good news of its|his|her|their next participation|shareholding in the Olympic Games|Sets and the thistle wild received for entering in the main picture of Wimbledon.
The face-off between Kirilenko and Suárez will begin at 6pm (televised by Teledeporte at 20:00). It will be the first confrontation between the two, who are both ranked among the top 50 players in the world.. The 21 year-old Russian has won three Sony Ericsson WTA Tour titles in her careerr. The Spainaird, who at 19 years, arrives to Barcelona after a brilliant performance at Roland Garros where she was a quarter-finalist, and also after hearing the good news of her participation at the Olympic Games as well as being awarded a wild card to enter the main draw at Wimbeldon.
Octavos de final del Barcelona KIA’08
- Llagostera 63 60 Compostizo
- Errani 64 75 Lepchenko
- Safarova – Parra (jueves)
- Martínez 62 64 Parmentier
- Ivanova – Kondratieva (jueves)
- Cohen-Aloro 76(3) 60 Rybarikova
- Zakopalova – Gallovits (jueves)
- Suárez - Kirilenko (jueves)
