Tennis: Bartoli topples Miami top seed Kuznetsova
The Russian, struggling with a shoulder injury, was dispatched by her French opponent 6-3, 6-0 in 56 minutes. Bartoli's reward is a quarter-final clash against 12th seed Yanina Wickmayer who beat Timea Bacsinszky 6-0, 6-1.
Venus Williams survived an early scare to see off Daniela Hantuchova 1-6, 7-5, 6-4 after the Slovakian stormed out of the blocks, racing into a 4-0 lead in the first set.
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Hide AdCaroline Wozniacki had no such problems and the second seed needed little more than an hour to dismiss Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-2, 6-2.
She will face Justine Henin in the quarter-finals after the former World No.1 saw off 11th seed Vera Zvonareva 6-1, 6-4.
Elsewhere, Kim Clijsters defeated defending champion Victoria Azarenka 6-4, 6-0, to set herself up with another tricky opponent in Samantha Stosur.
The ninth-seeded Australian beat Jelena Jankovic 6-1, 7-6 (11/9) although she was made to work in the second set as the No.7 seed threatened a comeback from 3-1 down.