seeded Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia advanced to the quarterfinals of the Kremlin Cup, rallying to beat Igor Kunitsyn of Russia 6-7 (5), 6-1, 6-0 Thursday. Earlier, Marion Bartoli of France kept her chances of qualifying for the WTA Championships alive after she beat Ksenia Pervak of Russia 6-1, 6-1 in the second round. Kunitsyn took the first set on a tiebreaker. But Tipsarevic, ranked 14th, jumped to 4-1 lead in the second set and won the next eight games to seal the match. He said the sixth game of the second set was the key to his victory. In Friday's quarterfinals, Tipsarevic will play sixth-seeded Dmitry Tursunov of Russia, who beat Julien Benneteau of France 6-3, 7-6 (1). In earlier men's second-round play, Jeremy Chardy of France upset third-seeded Aleksandr Dolgopolov of Ukraine, 6-3, 7-6 (6) to set up a quarterfinal with Germany's Philipp Kohlschreiber, who ousted seventh-seeded Gilles Muller of Luxembourg, 7-6 (4), 6-3. The third-seeded Bartoli needs to take the title in Moscow to secure the last spot for the season-ending event in Istanbul next week. Agnieszka Radwanska lost to Lucie Safarova Wednesday to leave Bartoli still hopeful of clinching her place. In quarterfinals, Bartoli will play Elena Vesnina, who earlier beat her fellow Russian Ekaterina Ivanova, a qualifier, 6-3, 6-4. In other women's second round matches, eighth-seeded Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia beat Klara Zakopalova of the Czech Republic 7-6 (5), 6-2. Sixth-seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova advanced to the quarterfinals by beating Tsvetana Pironkova of Bulgaria 7-5, 7-5. Monfils struggles In Stockholm, Gael Monfils of France was the only seeded player to progress in a day of upsets in the second round of the Stockholm Open Thursday. Top-seeded Monfils took three sets to beat Bernard Tomic of Australia 6-4, 6-7 (4), 6-4. Monfils now faces the fifth-seeded South African Kevin Anderson in the quarterfinals. Unseeded Argentine David Nalbandian beat seventh-seeded Ivan Dodig of Croatia 6-1, 6-1 and now plays James Blake, who beat second-seeded Juan Martin del Potro Wednesday. Jarkko Nieminen of Finland upset third-seeded Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland 6-3, 6-4, while fourth-seeded Juan Ignacio Chela also exited. Nieminen set himself up for a quarterfinal against Tobias Kamke of Germany, who won his second-round match against countryman Sebastian Rieschick 6-3, 6-1. Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria beat Chela 6-2, 5-7, 6-1 and will play the sixth-seeded Milos Raonic in the quarterfinals. Azarenka through In Luxembourg, top-seeded Victoria Azarenka of Belarus defeated Barbora Zahlavova Strycova of the Czech Republic 6-2, 6-4 Wednesday to reach the second round of the Luxembourg Open. She was joined by fifth-seeded Ana Ivanovic of Serbia, who defeated France's Virginie Razzano 7-6 (2), 6-4. The biggest seed to fall Wednesday was No. 5 Flavia Pannetta of Italy, who lost to Anastasija Sevastova of Latvia 6-3, 6-2. Julia Goerges of Germany earned a place in the quarterfinals by defeating Tamira Paszek of Austria, 6-4, 6-2. Iveta Benesova of the Czech Republic also went through into Friday's quarterfinals, after seventh-seeded Maria Kirilenko of Russia withdrew injured ahead of their match.
