Seles breezes past Roost in quarter-final

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Sydney: Monica Seles remained on course for a possible semi-final clash with Venus Williams by routing eighth-seeded Belgian Dominique Van Roost 6-0, 6-2 in the quarter-finals of the Olympic tennis tournament on Sunday.Seles played to near perfection and has lost just 10 games in her four matches. "The score is definitely a fantastic score," said Seles. "I don't know that I played that well."

Van Roost, at least, thought Seles was in great form. "In the first set she didn't make one mistake," said Van Roost. "In the second set she got a little tired. In the first she was too good."

In a swirling wind that made for tricky conditions, Seles committed just 11 unforced errors to 23 for the Belgian, who also served six double faults and let six break point opportunities in the second set get away.

The third-seeded Seles, ranked fifth in the world, will play the winner of Sunday's later quarter-final between Wimbledon and US Open champion Williams and Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, the 1996 silver medallist and winner of four Grand Slam titles.

Australian Jelena Dokic booked herself a berth in the semi-finals when she defeated seventh-seeded South African Amanda Coetzer 6-1, 1-6, 6-1.

Dokic back in track after lapse in concentration

The 17-year-old Dokic, a semifinalist this summer at Wimbledon, lost her way in the middle of the match, winning just three points from 1-1, 40-0 in the second set, but got back on track in the third set to the delight of the home crowd.

Tenth-seeded Russian teenager Elena Dementieva, a US Open semi-finalist, was meeting Austrian 12th seed Barbara Schett later on Sunday for the right to play Dokic.

On the men's side, Max Mirnyi of Belarus, who upset his doubles partner Lleyton Hewitt, the fourth seed, in the first round, rode his powerful serve-and-volley style into the quarter-finals by beating Argentina's Mariano Zabaleta 7-6 (7-4), 6-2.

US Open doubles champion Mirnyi will next try his all-or-nothing power game against Germany's Tommy Haas, who beat sixth seed Alex Corretja of Spain 7-6 (9-7), 6-3.