THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DEN BOSCH, Netherlands — Roberta Vinci beat third-seeded Yanina Wickmayer of Belgium 6-4, 6-4 in their quarter-final Thursday on a rain-plagued day at the Unicef Open grass-court tournament.
Showers throughout the day forced the postponement of several quarter-final matches and others were abandoned and will be completed Friday.
The seventh-seeded Vinci capitalized on an error-strewn performance by Wickmayer to break the Belgian’s serve once in the first set and three times in the second.
The start of the match was delayed by persistent rain and play was briefly interrupted by another shower with Vinci leading 3-2 in the second set.
In matches that were completed Thursday, Jelena Dokic beat Johanna Larsson of Sweden 7-6 (2), 6-4, and Romina Oprandi, who ousted Kim Clijsters in the second round, beat Kimiko Date-Krumm 7-6 (3), 6-4.
In the only men’s quarter-final to finish before rain washed out play for good, fourth-seeded Ivan Dodig of Croatia beat Teymuraz Gabashvili 2-6, 6-1, 6-2.
Second-seeded Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova will resume her quarterfinal against Dominika Cibulkova 0-3 down in the final set after the fifth-seeded Slovak broke her serve twice as rain closed in Thursday evening.
In other unfinished matches, Santiago Giraldo and Dmitry Tursunov’s quarterfinal was evenly poised at 3-6, 6-4, 4-4 and Xavier Malisse was leading Alex Bogomolov Jr. 6-2, 4-3.