In the women's quarterfinals, No. 3 seed Emilie Loit won her eighth successive match when she ousted Czech Klara Koukalova 6-3, 2-6, 6-4. The French player won her first career title last week at the Grand Prix SAR in Casablanca.
Loit will play Marta Marrero, who trounced fifth-seeded Barbara Schett of Austria 6-0, 6-2.
Loit beat Marrero in the quarterfinals in Casablanca, and was looking forward to another meeting with the Spaniard.
Valencia Open
Albert Montanes beat qualifier Marc Lopez 2-6, 6-2, 6-0 in a Spanish duel in the only quarterfinal completed in the rain-affected tournament on Friday.
Montanes, one of six Spanish players in the last eight, made it to his first semifinals since last July at Amersfoort, Netherlands.
"Even though I lost the first one, I was playing better and better, and once I took the lead I never let it go," Montanes said.
In the only other quarterfinal to start, Fernando Verdasco led seventh-seeded David Ferrer 5-2 before it was suspended by rain.
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