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Top seeds go through to last eight


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Williams is on course to claim a place in the $3m Tour Championship

NEW YORK -- Leading seeds Amelie Mauresmo, Venus Williams and Vera Zvonareva all registered second round victories at the Advanta Championships in Philadelphia.

Fifth seed Williams, who is battling sister Serena, Zvonareva and Jennifer Capriati for the two remaining berths in the $3m WTA Tour Championship, beat Ukraine's Yuliana Fedak 6-4 2-6 7-6.

Sixth-seeded Russian Zvonareva, who must win in Philadelphia to clinch a spot in the elite eight-player field in Los Angeles next week, also needed three sets to oust Nathalie Dechy 2-6 6-3 6-4.

Top seed and holder Mauresmo, looking for her fifth title of the season and second in as many weeks, swept past Czech Republic's Iveta Benesova 6-2 6-2 to reach the last eight.

"I feel comfortable playing here and hopefully it will keep going well," said Mauresmo. "I needed a couple of games to get into the rhythm.

"I was able to count on my first serve today and that helped a lot. I was also able to close it out pretty quickly, which gives me a lot of confidence.

"I really want the (world) number one spot back. I feel very proud about it, knowing I was the first Frenchwoman to do that. I want to do everything I can to get it back."

Second seed Anastasia Myskina, losing finalist last year, downed Paraguay's Rossana Neffa-De Los Rios 6-4 7-6.

"It was a pretty good match for me," Russian Myskina said. "She was playing really well. I didn't expect so much from her since she's been out with injuries."

In other second-round action, eighth seed Alicia Molik of Australia put out Serbia and Montenegro's Jelena Jankovic 7-5 6-3 and seventh seed Nadia Petrova of Russia tamed American Amy Frazier 6-4 6-3 as the top eight seeds marched into the quarter-finals.


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