Tennis: Wozniacki in Stuttgart quarters

STUTTGART: World number one Caroline Wozniacki powered into the Stuttgart WTA quarter-finals as four German players snapped a decade of national failure at the clay court event.

The 20-year-old crushed Slovakia’s Zuzana Kucova for a 6-1, 6-2 second-round victory and was pleased at her convincing show. In the quarter-finals, the Dane will play Germany’s Andrea Petkovic who fought back to earn a 3-6, 6-1, 6-3 win over Jelena Jankovic. Sabine Lisicki and Kristina Barrois also boosted the German contingent in the quarter-finals.



Published in The Express Tribune, April 22^nd, 2011.