Carlsbad: Wild-card entrant Virginie Razzano stunned third-seeded Petra Kvitova 6-7 (6), 7-5, 7-6 (8) on Friday in the Southern California Open quarter-finals.
Razzano, the Italian ranked No. 131 in the world, squandered four match points and had to stave off two match points from Kvitova in the third-set tiebreaker before Kvitova double-faulted to end the match at 3 hours, 35 minutes.
"I think I was nervous," Razzano said. "I'm human. I'm not a robot. Sometimes you feel stress. I tried to focus on the points."
The match was the second longest on the WTA Tour this year behind one between Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Anastasia Rodionova that lasted 3:42 at Charleston in April.
Razzano will face fifth-seeded Sam Stosur of Australia, a 7-5, 2-6, 6-3 winner over second-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland. In the other quarter-finals, No. 7 seed Ana Ivanovic of Serbia beat fourth-seeded Roberta Vinci of Italy 6-1, 6-7 (1), 6-2, and top-seeded Victoria Azarenka of Belarus played Poland's Urszula Radwanska.
Razzano's win over the seventh-ranked Kvitova was the Italian's first over a top-10 player since she handed then-No. 5 Serena Williams her first opening-round loss in Grand Slam event at the 2012 French Open. After winning a tight second set, Razzano was serving at 5-3 in the third set when she wasted three match points on two hitting errors and a double fault.
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