In one of the best contested matches at the Olympic Tennis School the second seeded Urszula Radwanska had to bring out every fibre of strength to scrape past a fighting seventh seeded Alexandra Panova of Russia winning 5-7, 6-2, 7-6 (3) in a match lasting 3 hours and 5 minutes.

On a day of upsets Irina -Camelia Begu of Romania continued her good run in the event to come back from a 2-5 deficit to register a 3-6, 7-6 (1), 7-5 win over eighth seeded Galina Voeskoboeva of Kazakhstan in 3 hours, while qualifier Donna Vekic of Croatia made it to her first career semifinal scoring a 6-4, 6-4 straight set win over sixth seeded Bojana Jovanovski.

Last year’s finalist Eva Birnervo caused the other upset of the day out hitting fifth seeded Alexandra Cadantu of Romania 6-3, 4-6, 6-2 for a place in the last four stage.

Following are the results: Quarterfinals

Eva Birnerova (CZE) bt [5] Alexandra Cadantu (ROU) 6-3,4-6,6-2
[Q] Donna Vekic (CRO) bt [6] Bojana Jovanovski 6-4,6-4
Irina Camelia Begu (ROU) bt [8] Galina Voskoboeva (KAZ) 3-6,7-6(1),7-5
[2] Urszula Radwanska (POL) bt [7] Alexandra Panova (RUS) 5-7,6-2,7-6(3)

Doubles: Semi Finals

Anna Chakvetadze (RUS)/Vesna Dolonc (SRB) bt Irina –Camelia Begu / Monica Niculescu (ROU) 6-1,6-0
Paula Kania (POL)/ Polina Pekhova(RUS) bt Akgul Amanmuradova (UZB)/Vitalia Diatchenko (RUS) 6-4,4-6 ,10-4