Bartoli scrapes thru'

Top seed Marion Bartoli survived a struggle lasting for more than three hours, with the Frenchwoman overcoming a massive 18 double-faults to advance at the WTA hardcourt event here on Wednesday.
Bartoli defeated American Vania King 6-4, 5-7, 6-4 in an error-plagued marathon match to reach the quarterfinals after a bye in the first round.
"It's a very hard surface," Bartoli said. "Playing three hours is not really helping, but I think it was a great fight from both of us and we tried our best."
Bartoli, who will not play in the London Olympics due to a longstanding dispute with the French federation, won a battle in which both women took lengthy injury breaks, with Bartoli going off court for treatment in the third set.
Bartoli said she felt her hip hurting since the first set.
"I really tried to keep the pain away and tried to not think about it," she said.
"Obviously it came to a point where I had really a lot of problems serving. I really needed some help from the trainer.
"It was a gradual pain. At the end of the first set I started to feel it but was able to go through it. And then in the second set we had some tough rallies, and the more she was moving side to side, the more I was feeling it."
Bartoli advanced despite losing serve eight times against the world 59th-ranked King.
The French player lost serve in the opening game of the final set but fought to get it back as she broke for four-all before closing out the match at La Costa on a concluding break.
US Olympian Varvara Lepchenko upset South African eighth seed Chanelle Scheepers 6-4, 6-2 to
reach her third quarterfinal of the season.