Ivanovic tames Spaniard to reach last eight

PARIS, June 3 (Reuters) Serbian Ana Ivanovic reached the quarter-finals of the French Open today with a 6-3 3-6 6-3 defeat of gritty Spaniard Anabel Medina Garrigues.

The 19-year-old, seeded seventh here after cracking the world's top 10 this year, needed more than two hours to quell the challenge of Garrigues who came through a three-hour clash with Daniela Hantuchova yesterday.

Ivanovic will face Russian third seed Svetlana Kuznetsova in the quarter-finals, hoping to go further than in 2005 when she fell in the last eight.

It has been a good tournament for Serbian players so far with Novak Djokovic also through to the fourth round of the men's singles.

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