Italy's Andreas Seppi breaks the hearts of the home faithful at the Hamburg Masters beating German Nicolas Kiefer 6-3 5-7 7-5 to reach the semi-finals.
Fourth seeded Serbian Jelena Jankovic beats Wimbledon champion Venus Williams 5-7 6-2 6-3 to reach the semi-finals of the Italian Open.
American fifth seed Serena Williams withdraws from her Italian Open quarter-final with French qualifier Alize Cornet because of a back injury.
Russian sixth seed Anna Chakvetadze beats Bulgarian qualifier Tsvetana Pironkova 6-2 3-6 6-1 to go through to the semi-finals of the Italian Open.
Third round: 7-Venus Williams (U.S.) beat 10-Vera Zvonareva (Russia) 7-5 6-2; Alize Cornet (France) beat 3-Svetlana Kuznetsova (Russia) 6-2 6-4; 6-Anna Chakvetadze (Russia) beat 12-Agnieszka Radwanska (Poland) 6-4 1-6 6-1
Former world number one Gustavo Kuerten is given a wildcard for the French Open