Tennis: Petrova bounces back

Russian Nadia Petrova, stung by US teenager Melanie Oudin in the fourth round of the US Open, continued her rebound yesterday by reaching the quarter-finals of the WTA event in Quebec.

Petrova, the top seed and defending champion in the US$220,000 ($312,460) tournament, beat Madison Brengle 6-3, 6-2 in 69 minutes, belting 10 aces past the 19-year-old American.