Henin, Hingis land in Doha quarters

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02/28/2007 - Doha, Qatar (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Former world No. 1s Justine Henin and Martina Hingis were among Wednesday's second-round winners at the $1.34 million Qatar Open.

The top-seeded Henin, fresh off her title in Dubai, snuck past hard-serving Aussie Alicia Molik 6-2, 7-6 (11-9) at Khalifa International Tennis Complex. The French Open champion Henin defeated Amelie Mauresmo in last week's finale at the Dubai Women's Open.

The U.S. Open and Wimbledon runner-up Henin's quarterfinal opponent here on Thursday will be fifth-seeded Swiss Patty Schnyder, a 6-3, 6-4 victor over Spaniard Anabel Medina Garrigues on Day 3.

A third-seeded Hingis, who captured the Doha championship in 2001, blew past Russian beauty Maria Kirilenko 6-2, 6-2 to setup a quarterfinal meeting with sixth-seeded Slovakian Daniela Hantuchova, a 6-7 (4-7), 6-4, 6-3 winner against Greek Eleni Daniilidou.

Second-seeded Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova, the 2004 Doha runner-up and last year's French Open runner-up to Henin, got past German qualifier Julia Goerges 7-5, 6-1.

In other second-round action, fourth-seeded Serbian Jelena Jankovic drilled Italian Maria Elena Camerin 6-0, 6-2 and eight-seeded Italian Francesca Schiavone was leading her countrywoman Mara Santangelo 4-6, 7-6 (7-5), 1-0 when Santangelo retired with a left wrist injury.

Ukrainian qualifier Kateryna Bondarenko reached the round of eight via walkover when Indian Sania Mirza pulled out of their scheduled match, citing a right knee injury.

Thursday's other quarters will pit Kuznetsova against Schiavone and Jankovic versus Bondarenko.

The 2007 Qatar titlist will claim $222,000.

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Texas joins Texas A&M and Kansas as locks after getting league win No. 11. Texas Tech greatly helped its own hopes and crippled OK State's with the two-point win Saturday. Is K-State the last reasonable hopeful? Could be an elimination match in Stillwater on Tuesday, at least for the Cowboys.

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