Bali, Indonesia (Sports Network) - Top-seeded Serbian Jelena Jankovic and former world No. 1 American Lindsay Davenport highlighted Thursday's second-round winners at the $225,000 Commonwealth Bank Tennis Classic.
Jankovic, fresh off her quarterfinal appearance at the U.S. Open, got past Aussie Casey Dellacqua 6-4, 6-4, while the unseeded Davenport handled her qualifier compatriot Julie Ditty 6-1, 6-4 at the beautiful Grand Hyatt Bali.
The 22-year-old Jankovic and the three-time major titlist Davenport will do battle in the quarters here on Friday. The 31-year-old Davenport is 3-0 lifetime against the current world No. 3 Serb.
The 2005 Bali titlist Davenport is playing her first singles tennis since last September. She gave birth to her first child, a son named Jagger, in June of this year.
A pair of Day-4 upsets occurred, as Romanian qualifier Sorana Cirstea drove out third-seeded Swiss Patty Schnyder 6-2, 5-7, 7-5 and Italian Sara Errani erased fourth-seeded Spaniard Anabel Medina Garrigues 7-5, 4-6, 6-4.
Seventh-seeded Japanese Aiko Nakamura charged into the quarterfinals by pasting France's Youlia Fedossova 6-2, 6-2.
Friday's other quarters will pit second-seeded Slovakian Daniela Hantuchova against Japan's Ayumi Morita, Nakamura versus Errani and Cirstea against her fellow Romanian Edina Gallovits.
This week's winner will collect $32,340.
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