San Diego, California: French Open runner-up Samantha Stosur of Australia was ousted from the 700,000-dollar WTA San Diego Open on Friday, losing a quarter-final 6-4, 6-3 to Italian fifth seed Flavia Pennetta.
Second seed Stosur joined Serbian top seed Jelena Jankovic and Russian third seed Vera Zvonareva on the scrapheap at the 700,000-dollar hardcourt tournament, a tuneup for the US Open that begins on August 30.
Pennetta fired seven aces and blasted 19 winners past Stosur to book a semi-final berth against the winner of a later match between Russia's Svetlana Kuznetsova and US teen Coco Vandeweghe.
The other quarter-finals pit Russian Alisa Kleybanova against Slovakia's Daniela Hantuchova and Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska against Israel's Shahar Peer.
Second seed Stosur joined Serbian top seed Jelena Jankovic and Russian third seed Vera Zvonareva on the scrapheap at the 700,000-dollar hardcourt tournament, a tuneup for the US Open that begins on August 30.
Pennetta fired seven aces and blasted 19 winners past Stosur to book a semi-final berth against the winner of a later match between Russia's Svetlana Kuznetsova and US teen Coco Vandeweghe.
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