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Davydenko advances

ESTORIL: Second seed Nikolay Davydenko shrugged off a sluggish start, claiming his ninth victory in succession on Wednesday to move into the quarterfinals of the Estoril Open. The Russian, who won the Miami title little more than a week ago over Rafael Nadal, staged a comeback to defeat Czech Ivo Minar 2-6, 6-2, 6-4.

The results: At Estoril (Estoril Open): Men: First round: Flavio Cipolla bt Gilles Simon 6-2, 5-3 ret.; Marc Gicquel bt Thierry Ascione 7-6(2), 6-3; Florent Serra bt Rui Machado 7-6(5), 6-1; Nikolay Davydenko bt Ivo Minar 2-6, 6-2, 6-4.

Women: Second round: Iveta Benesova bt Flavia Pennetta 6-2, 6-2; Karin Knapp bt Mariana Duque Marino 6-3, 6-4; Klara Zakopalova bt Corinna Dentoni 6-4, 6-1; Camille Pin bt Tsvetana Pironkova 6-3, 6-4.

At Valencia (Valencia Open): Second round: Potito Starace bt Gael Monfils 7-5, 6-1 First round: Robin Haase bt Yuri Schukin 6-4, 4-1 ret.; Juan Monaco bt Werner Eschauer 6-7(5), 6-4, 6-4; Fernando Verdasco bt Nicolas Lapentti 5-7, 6-3, 6-4.

At Houston: ATP U.S. Claycourt championships: First round: Agustin Calleri bt Vincent Spadea 6-4, 6-3; Marcel Granollers-Pujol bt Ernests Gulbis 6-2, 6-0; Sergio Roitman bt John Isner 3-6, 7-6(6), 6-3; Igor Kunitsyn bt Tommy Haas 5-7, 6-4, 6-4; Mardy Fish bt Rainer Schuettler 7-6(4), 6-3.

At Charleston: WTA Family Circle Cup: Second round: Sorana Cirstea bt Anna Chakvetadze 6-2, 1-6, 6-2; Marion Bartoli bt Casey Dellacqua 7-5, 4-6, 6-1; Dinara Safina bt Lourdes Dominguez Lino 6-1, 6-4; Agnes Szavay bt Ai Sugiyama 7-5, 3-6, 6-4; Serena Williams bt Gisela Dulko 6-3, 6-4. First round: Victoria Azarenka bt Chanelle Scheepers 6-1, 6-0; Tatiana Perebiynis bt Anabel Medina Garrigues 4-6, 6-0, 7-5; Anastasia Rodionova bt Dominika Cibulkova 6-4, 1-0 retd.; Alize Cornet bt Michaella Krajicek 6-3, 3-6, 6-4; Olga Govortsova bt Elena Vesnina 6-3, 6-2; Aravane Rezai bt Milagros Sequera 6-4, 4-6, 7-5; Virginia Ruano Pascual bt Olga Puchkova 4-6, 7-5, 6-0; Bethanie Mattek bt Yuan Meng 6-3, 4-6, 6-2. — Agencies

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