Sania sorts out Lisicki

Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza advanced to the quarterfinals of the Family Circle Cup WTA tournament with a win on, distributed-Sabine Lisicki of Germany. Sania, who made the main draw through

the qualifying rounds, beat German wild card participant 6-4, 6-4 in second round singles match of the event prize money $ 721,000 clay court.

It will meet 11 seeds Shuai Peng of China in the quarterfinals. Peng upset seventh seeded Russian Nadia Petrova 6-3, 5-7, 6-2 in another second-round match.

Sania has also reached the quarterfinals of the women's doubles with partner Elena Vesnina of Russia. The unseeded Indo-Russian duo had upset second seeds Liezel Huber and Lisa Raymond in the first round.

Second-seeded and defending champion Samantha Stosur crashed into the tournament, falling in three sets by Russia's Elena Vesnina unseeded.

The day-seeded Caroline Wozniacki has adopted a tough test with flying colors, coming with two wins tiebreaker to reach the quarter-finals, Australia Stosur fell 6-4, 6-1 to Vesnina.

Stosur said she was going to jump ahead of the country of the Fed Cup equality in Ukraine to focus on clay accumulation at the French Open.

Wozniacki fended off the challenge of strong language Czech Barbora Strycova Zahlavova, 7-6 (06/08), 7-6 (09/11) in a match of more than 2-1/2 hours.