Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual reach quarters

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual won in straight sets over qualifiers Thursday to reach the quarter-finals at the Nordic Light Open.

The fifth-seeded Medina Garrigues beat Barbora Zahlavova Strycov of the Czech Republic 6-1, 6-1, and Ruano Pascual downed Maria Elena Camerin of Italy 6-3, 6-2.

Iveta Benesova of the Czech Republic, Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark and Camille Pin of France also reached the last eight.

Benesova rallied past sixth-seeded Sania Mirza of India 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, the fourth-seeded Wozniacki routed Finnish wild card Emma Laine 6-1, 6-0 and Pin ousted Swedish wild card Johanna Larsson 6-3, 6-2.

Medina Garrigues, a finalist in Slovenia last week, has won three of her four sets by 6-1 scores in the hard-court tournament at Olympic Stadium.

"I'm very pleased with the way I played today," she said. "I tried to stay focused and win every point."

Medina Garrigues turned 26 Thursday and was presented with a cake on centre court after the match.