LONDON, June 27 - Former French Open champion Ana
Ivanovic marched into the fourth round at Wimbledon with a 7-5
6-2 win over Australian Samantha Stosur on Saturday. Breaking Stosur in the first game, the 13th-seeded Serbian
got off to a strong start but her opponent refused to go down
without a fight. Stosur, a semi-finalist at Roland Garros earlier this month,
broke back to level at 5-5 before she netted the ball to lose
the first set. Ivanovic, seeking to add a Wimbledon crown to the French
Open title she won last year, dominated in the second. She
surged into a 4-0 lead before sealing victory on her second
match point with a powerful serve. She will play either five-times champion Venus Williams or
Spain's Carla Suarez Navarro for a place in the quarter-finals. (Reporting by Kylie MacLellan; editing by Pritha Sarkar, To
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