Zagreb, Croatia (Sports Network) - Top-seeded two-time champion Marin
Cilic of the host nation and reigning titlist Mikhail Youzhny were a pair of
easy quarterfinal winners Friday at the Zagreb Indoors tennis event.
The 2009 and 2010 Zagreb champ Cilic topped Slovenian Blaz Kavcic 6-3, 7-6
(7-5), while the third-seeded Russian Youzhny drilled 2011 titlist Ivan Dodig
of Croatia 6-3, 6-2 inside Dom Sportova.
Youzhny beat Slovak Lukas Lacko in last year's finale here.
The Zagreb resident Cilic and Youzhny will meet for a ninth time on the ATP
World Tour, with the Russian holding a 5-3 lifetime advantage. Cilic, however,
has won their last two meetings.
Also in the round of eight, fourth-seeded veteran Austrian left-hander Jurgen
Melzer topped big-serving Czech Lukas Rosol 6-4, 6-4 and Dutchman Robin Haase
snuck past German qualifier Philipp Petzschner 6-4, 3-6, 6-0. Melzer and Haase
will square off in Saturday's other semifinal.
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