Dementieva, Mauresmo to meet in Luxembourg quarters

Olympic gold medalist Elena Dementieva and former world No. 1 Amelie Mauresmo were a pair of second-round winners Thursday at the $225,000 Luxembourg Championships.

The top-seeded Dementieva, of Russia, drilled Argentine Gisela Dulko 6-2, 6-2, while the fifth-seeded Mauresmo, of France, drubbed German Anna-Lena Groenefeld 6-3, 6-1 on the indoor hardcourts at CK Sport Kockelscheuer.

Dementieva and Mauresmo will square off in Friday's quarterfinals here. Mauresmo is 8-5 in their lifetime series, but the Russian won their last meeting in Stuttgart last season.

Also on Thursday, seventh-seeded Spaniard Anabel Medina Garrigues got past Colombian qualifier Catalina Castano 6-2, 4-6, 7-5 to setup a quarterfinal bout with fourth-seeded Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark.

Friday's other quarters will pit third-seeded Slovakian Daniela Hantuchova against eighth-seeded Romanian Sorana Cirstea and sixth-seeded Chinese Na Li versus Czech Iveta Benesova. Hantuchova was last year's Luxembourg runner-up to Serbian star Ana Ivanovic.

The 2008 Luxembourg titlist will pocket $35,000.

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