Spain's Llagostera Vives at Princesse Lalla Meryem Tennis GP quarter finals

Spain's Nuria Llagostera Vives reached, here Wednesday, the quarter finals of the Princesse Lalla Meryem 5th Tennis Grand Prix.

Second-seeded Llagostera Vives, who downed Morocco's Bahia Mouhtassine at the first round, beat Anne Kremer of Luxembourg 6-4, 6-2, while Fourth-seeded Tathiana Garbin of Italy won over Barbora Strycova of the Czech Republic 6-4, 6-4.

Italy's Antonella Serra Zanetti breezes also through to the quarter-finals after beating Ukraine's Olga Savchuk 7-6 (8-6), 6-4. She will play either top-seeded Na Li of China or Jelena Dokic of Serbia-Montenegro.

Spain's Lourdes Dominguez Lino also reached the last eight with a 6-4, 7-5 win over Michaela Pastikova of the Czech Republic.

Llagostera Vives will face the winner of Thursday's second-round match between qualifier Yan Zi of China and seventh-seeded Arantxa Parra Santonja of Spain.

Garbin will take on either sixth-seeded Zheng Jie of China or Toronto's Maureen Drake, who dispatched Italy's Adriana Serra Zanetti on Tuesday.

The US$ 140,000 tournament is taking place April 30 through May 8 and the winner will book US$ 22,000.