Third-seeded Sania Mirza of India highlighted Thursday's second-round winners at the $145,000 Tashkent Open.
Mirza handled Czech Hana Sromova 6-4, 7-5 on the hardcourts at Tashkent Tennis Center. Mirza's quarterfinal opponent on Friday will be sixth-seeded Russian Olga Poutchkova, who topped France's Olivia Sanchez 7-5, 6-1 on Day 4 here.
In other second-round action, Belarusian Victoria Azarenka bested Slovakian qualifier Dominika Cibulkova 6-4, 6-4 and Chinese Tiantian Sun got past Belarusian Tatiana Poutchek by an identical 6-4, 6-4 score.
The other quarters will pit top-seeded Italian Maria Elena Camerin against Azarenka, eighth-seeded Russian Anastassia Rodionova versus Sun and Tashkent's own Iroda Tulyaganova against the Ukraine's Kateryna Bondarenko. Tulyaganova captured this event in 2000.
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