Magdalena Rybarikova defeated defending champion Pauline Parmentier in second-round play at the Gastein Ladies tennis tournament in Austria. Rybarikova, seeded sixth, posted the only service break of the third set to take a 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 win over Parmentier.

Slovakia's Magdalena Rybarikova beat China's Na Li in straight sets Sunday to win the Aegon Classic title in Birmingham, England. The scores were 6-0, 7-6 (7-2). The 20-year-old Rybarikova captured her first-ever WTA Tour singles event by taking a grueling second-set tiebreaker. It's the best feeling in my career, said Rybarikova, who broke serve three times while capturing the first set.

Iveta Benesova, Petra Kvitova, Magdalena Rybarikova and Virginie Razzano, all unseeded, won quarterfinal matches in the Hobart International in Australia. Benesova, of the Czech Republic, bested Gisela Dulko of Argentina 6-4, 6-4 and Kvitova, also a Czech, dropped the opening set but rallied to defeat Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 1-6, 7-5, 6-3 in Wednesday matches. Rybarikova, of Slovakia, outlasted Hungarian qualifier Melinda Czink, 6-0, 1-6, 7-6 (9-7), and Razzano, of France, downed Bulgarian Tsvetana Pironkova, 6-4, 6-1.