Ginepri advanced to the quarter-finals for the first time in 15 matches this season, and third time in the last four years in Indianapolis. As he did last year, he'll meet Paradorn Srichaphan of Thailand.
Paradorn saved three match points while serving at 5-6 in the final set to beat 11th-seeded Paul Goldstein of the US 5-7, 6-3, 7-6 (3).
"I also saved three match points when I last played Paul in Washington last year. But my mind didn't flash back to Washington when I was down match point today," Paradorn wrote on his blog. "I didn't expect to get out of this one."
Third-seeded Fernando Gonzalez conceded only four points on his first serve in downing 14th-seeded Vince Spadea 6-4, 7-6 (7).
No. 9-seeded Xavier Malisse of Belgium withstood 12 aces from No. 7 Dmitry Tursunov to put out the Russian 7-6 (4), 3-6, 6-3 for his first quarter-final berth since March.
Tomas Berdych led the remaining quartet of seeded players into the quarter-finals of the Mercedes Cup on Thursday.
A day after eight seeded players were knocked out of the US$740,000 clay-court tournament, second-seeded Berdych beat Argentine qualifier Diego Junqueira, 6-1, 6-4.
No. 3-seeded David Ferrer, No. 5 Jose Acasuso and No. 13 Luis Horna also progressed.
Berdych jumped ahead 4-0 in the second set, Junqueira took the next game, then Berdych asked the tournament doctor to look at his shoulder. Berdych played on and led 5-1 but was clearly bothered by the shoulder and dropped the next three games.
Junqueira had two break points to even the set at 5-5, but Berdych converted his first match point with a forehand volley.
In the quarters, the Czech will play Ecuador qualifier Nicolas Lapentti, who beat Argentine qualifier Diego Hartfield 7-6 (5), 6-2.
Ferrer used his strong baseline game to defeat Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland 6-3, 6-4 for the Spaniard's fifth quarter-finals of the year.
There he'll play Germany's Florian Mayer, who defeated Argentine qualifier Juan Martin Del Potro 6-1, 6-0, in 48 minutes.
Acasuso, another Argentine, fought off a spirited effort by Germany's Simon Greul 7-6 (4), 2-6, 6-4, and will take on Oliver Marach, who beat fellow Austrian Stefan Koubek 6-4, 6-4
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