MELBOURNE, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- Dinara Safina and Vera Zvonareva were quarterfinal winners Tuesday at the 2009 Australian Open.
Third-seeded Safina, 22, beat Jelena Dokic 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, and seventh-seeded Zvonareva defeated 16th-seeded Marion Bartoli 6-3, 6-0. Bartoli, 2007 Wimbledon runner-up, upset women's world No. 1 Jelena Jankovic in the fourth round this past weekend.
Safina, last year's French Open and Olympic runner-up, will appear in her third career Grand Slam semifinal, while the 24-year-old Zvonareva will play in her first.
The 187th-ranked Dokic beat three seeded players in her first four matches.
The women's quarterfinals will conclude Wednesday, when second-seeded Serena Williams meets eighth-seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova and fourth-seeded Elena Dementieva plays unseeded Carla Suarez Navarro. Navarro upset Williams' older sister Venus in the second round.
