Clijsters cruises into last eight (From Hampshire Chronicle)

Clijsters cruises into last eight

5:31pm Sunday 5th September 2010 in

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Defending champion Kim Clijsters extended her winning streak at the US Open to 18 matches with a straight-sets victory over Ana Ivanovic in the fourth round.

Clijsters won the title at Flushing Meadows in 2005 and came out of retirement last year to lift the trophy again in only her 14th match and third tournament since returning to action.

And the second seed again demonstrated her liking for New York by brushing aside former world number one Ivanovic 6-2 6-1 in just 59 minutes to advance to a quarter-final clash with either fifth seed Samantha Stosur or 12th seed Elena Dementieva.

The trend for one-sided matches, particularly in the bottom half of the draw, continued with Francesca Schiavone beating Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in straight sets.

French Open champion Schiavone, the sixth seed, won 6-3 6-0 and will face Venus Williams in the quarter-finals.