Date Krumm continues Korea Open run

SEOUL, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- Defending champion Kimiko Date Krumm rolled to a second-round victory Thursday at the Korea Open tennis tournament in Seoul.

Date Krumm, who turned 39 the day after she won the Korea Open last year, ousted second-seeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-2, 6-1 in a brisk 67 minutes. She saved all six of the break-point situations she faced while piling up five breaks of her own.

Pavlyuchenkova managed just 13 points in Date Krumm's seven service games.

While top-seeded Nadia Petrova took a 6-3, 6-4 decision over Vania King, three other seeds joined Pavlyuchenkova on the sidelines.

Dinara Safina rolled by No. 3-seeded Maria Kirilenko 6-2, 6-3 behind six service breaks; Ekaterina Makarova dumped fourth-seeded Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez 6-4, 7-5; and Kirsten Flipkens topped sixth-seeded Yaroslava Shvedova 6-4, 6-1.

The other second-round results found No. 5-seeded Alisa Kleybanova surviving a 2 1/2-hour match against Ksenia Pervak 6-7 (13-15), 6-1, 6-2; eighth-seeded Agnes Szavay getting by Elena Baltacha 6-3, 7-5; and Klara Zakopalova beating Vera Dushevina 6-4, 7-6 (7-5).

Petrova will go against Flipkens and Safina meets Zakopalova in the draw's top-half quarterfinals Friday while Kleybanova plays Makarova and Date Krumm faces Szavay in the bracket's lower half.