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Wozniacki battles into Rome quarter-finals

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Denmark`s Caroline Wozniacki reacts as she plays Latvia`s Anastajia Sevastova during their women`s singles match at the Rome`s WTA Tennis Open tournament at the Foro Italico in Rome on Thursday. AFP
Denmark`s Caroline Wozniacki reacts as she plays Latvia`s Anastajia Sevastova during their women`s singles match at the Rome`s WTA Tennis Open tournament at the Foro Italico in Rome on Thursday. AFP

World number two Caroline Wozniacki needed three sets to battle past Latvia's Anastasija Sevastova to reach the final eight of the Italian Open on Thursday.

Second seed Wozniacki won through 6-2, 5-7, 6-3 against 20th-ranked Sevastova to reach her first quarter-finals in Rome since 2011.

She next meets Estonia's Anett Kontaveit who defeated Venus Williams for the second time in a week after Madrid.

Kontaveit, 22, won 6-2, 7-6 (7/3) against the 37-year-old American who was seeded eighth in a tournament she won nearly two decades ago in 1999.

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