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Medina Garrigues advances at Palermo

PALERMO, Italy, July 10 (UPI) -- Four-time champion Anabel Medina Garrigues moved on to the quarterfinals Thursday with a straight-set victory in the Palermo International in Italy.

Medina Garrigues, seeded second, took down fellow Spaniard Nuria Llagostera Vives 6-0, 6-4 and will go against Italian Tathiana Garbin in the quarterfinals.

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Garbin advanced with a 7-5, 6-4 win over Olivia Sanchez of France.

Ukrainian Mariya Koryttseva reached the quarters, outlasting Chinese qualifier Xinyun Han 6-4, 3-6, 6-3.

Another qualifier, Margalita Chakhnashvili, dropped the first set but rallied for a 2-6, 6-1, 6-1 victory over Italian wild card Corinna Dentoni.

Russian's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova routed Rossana De Los Rios of Paraguay 6-1, 6-2.

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