Top seed Petra Kvitova and 2nd seed Roberta Vinci are the only two seeded players to get through to the quarterfinals in Katowice. 3rd seed Klara Zakopalova went out in the 2nd round to Maria Elena Camerin, and 6th seed Kaia Kanepi--making a comeback from injury--lost to Kristyna Pliskova.
5th seed Alize Cornet, 7th seed Sabine Lisicki and 8th seed Laura Robson went out in the first round. Two of them were defeated by qualifiers.
Petra is playing well this week. She has breezed through her first three matches, often leaving her opponents shaking their heads at the crazy winners. She hit one on the run from fifteen feet behind the baseline and roughly eight feet wide of the sideline in her second match. Methinks that she actually goes for the lines, and not for near the lines. It makes for great audience excitement. Of course, she made the usual unforced errors on easy balls.
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