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Davenport, Agassi through to quarterfinals

Top-seed Andre Agassi easily advanced to the quarterfinals of the Washington Classic on Thursday with a 6-4 6-2 victory over Kristian Pless to extend his winning streak to eight matches.

Agassi broke the unseeded Dane's serve in the third game of the match and was never threatened after that in the opening set. He repeated the feat at the same stage of the second set and coasted to victory from there.

The American next meets Frenchman Paul-Henri Mathieu, who advanced with a 7-6 6-4 win over Adrian Garcia.

A five-time winner of the event, Agassi has reached the quarterfinals in Washington for the seventh consecutive time.

In other matches, Gilles Muller of Luxembourg scored a 7-5 5-7 6-2 win over American Jan-Michael Gambill, and Switzerland's Michel Kratochvil also advanced with a 7-6 7-6 victory over eighth-seeded Russian Dmitry Tursinov.

Muller and Kratochvil will face each other in the last eight.

Cincinnati Open

Top-seeded Lindsay Davenport rallied to defeat fellow American Lilia Osterloh, advancing to the quarterfinals of the Cincinnati Open.

She extended her winning streak to 15 matches with a 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 win.

Davenport, who elected not to take part in the Athens Olympics, captured three consecutives tournaments in three weeks this year and is 46-6 overall in 2004.

Davenport moves on to play Italy's Flavia Pennetta who beat Rita Grande. Pennetta reached the quarters by beating Grande 6-7 (1/7), 6-2, 6-4.

Russian Vera Zvonareva of Russia also advanced with a 6-4, 7-6 (7/3) win over Italian Antonella Serra Zanetti.

Second seeded Zvonareva's opponent will be Chinese qualifier Peng Shuai.

Unseeded Laura Granville, of the US, also secured a spot in the quarterfinals with a 6-1, 6-1 upset of fifth-seeded Denisa Chldkova.
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