World No 1 Dinara Safina made light work of Slovakia's Daniela Hantuchova as she needed just over an hour to reach the quarter-finals of the WTA tournament yesterday.

Having blasted her way past Italy's Sara Errani 6-0, 6-1 in the first round, Safina was barely troubled by Hantuchova as she won her second round game 6-4, 6-2 and will play eighth-seed Agnieszka Radwanska in today's quarter-final.