Good stuff. Elena will play top seed Shazza or (WC) Mattek-Sands (so barring freak injuries, that'll be Shazza then) in the second night match tomorrow, probably about 02.30 GMT, and Anne will play Sprem n/b 20.00 GMT.

Shazza d. Mattek-Sands 61 61 so Shazza it is for Elena. This is going to be very tough, especially as it's such a late match.

I make it that this is Elena's first ever WTA level QF and Anne's 5th - she's won the other four too!

2009 Warsaw v Olaru (ROU)
2009 Memphis v Erakovic (NZL)
2009 Auckland v Morita (JPN)
2007 Kolkata v Obziler (ISR)

Yes, great to see the 2 girls into the QFs.

Very impressed and slightly surprised by how quickly Anne has got back to seemingly close to her best.  She obviously had, as she said, done a great deal of training and prep prior to her comeback and was already shaking off match rustiness after the Fed Cup week ( to get right back during that week was I think expecting too much, but let's not go there again ), was quite impressive last week and has stepped up a level again this week. I think she has a reasonaable chance of reaching the SF and thus defending her SF points from last year.

Bally's job a little tougher      Be great though if she can at least feel she has given her best and if Shazza is just better so be it.  She didn't produce her best vs Safina in the Aus Open, perhaps understandablty due to the occasion, and I feel she will want to step up on that performance at this next meeting with one of the "big girls".

Well done both girls. Massive ask for Bally but come on Anne.

The match before Anne's has just finished.