HOBART, Australia, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- Top seeds Samantha Stosur and Kirsten Flipkens both won in three sets Wednesday in advancing to the quarterfinals of the Hobart International tennis tournament.
Stosur, the No. 1 seed, escaped Kristina Mladenovic 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (9-7). Stosur dropped serve twice in both of the first two sets but was able to convert her only break chance of the third set before deciding the match in the extended tiebreaker.