Top-seeded Samantha Stosur, No. 2 Elena Dementieva advance to the quarterfinals

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Dementieva, Stosur advance to quarterfinal

STANFORD, Calif. — Sixth-ranked Elena Dementieva rallied to beat Japan’s Kimiko Date Krumm 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 on Wednesday night in the second round of the Bank of the West Classic.

Dementieva, the Russian seeded second, won 12 of the final 17 games to avoid becoming the first seeded player to fall in the tournament. The two players were a combined 13 of 28 on break points.

In another second-round match, Australia’s Samantha Stosur celebrated her highest singles’ ranking ever with a 6-1, 7-5 victory over U.S. qualifier Christina McHale

The match was Stosur’s first since reaching No. 5 in the world.

“The high ranking feels good,” Stosur said. “It was a goal for me to get to No. 10. Once I got to that point, all of a sudden I moved up to No. 5. To have another big jump like that so soon is really pleasing.

“It’s not like I have changed anything dramatically overnight. It’s just a combination of everything that I have been doing over the past few years and now it’s all coming together. Once you produce some good results, it instills more belief. But I haven’t changed anything in my game. I have still been working on the same things, just getting better at them.”

The top-seeded Stosur needed just over an hour to beat the 161st-ranked McHale, finishing with eight aces and winning 76 percent of her first-serve points.

Third-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland and No. 7 Yanina Wickmayer of Belgium also advanced. Radwanska beat Ukrainian qualifier Olga Savchuk 7-6 (4), 6-2, and Wickmayer topped Slovakia’s Dominika Cibulkova 6-1, 6-4.

Stosur will facce Wickmayer in the quarterfinals Friday.

All eight seeds remain alive.