Kimiko Date Krumm, who took 12 years off from competitive tennis, Friday knocked top-seeded Daniela Hantuchova out of the Korea Open in Seoul. Krumm, who turns 39 on Monday, turned pro in 1989 and retired in 1996.

No. 1-seed Daniela Hantuchova sailed through a straight-set win Thursday and into the quarterfinals of the Korea Open tennis tournament in Seoul. Hantuchova needed just 77 minutes to dispatch Chanelle Scheepers 6-1, 6-1.

Fourth-seeded Sorana Cirstea lost a tight three-set match, the lone upset on a 14-match, first-round card Tuesday at the Korea Open tennis tournament in Seoul. Cirstea fell 7-6 (7-3), 3-6, 6-3 to Anna-Lena Groenefeld in a match that took 2 hours, 19 minutes.

Defending champion Maria Kirilenko was among three highly seeded players failing to advance in quarterfinal play at the $220,000 Estoril Open in Portugal. In addition to the second-seeded Kirilenko, No. 3-seeded Sorana Cirstea and fourth-seeded Sabine Lisicki were eliminated.

Defending champion Maria Kirilenko of Russia beat Argentina's Maria Emilia 6-3, 6-0 Wednesday in a second-round match at the Estoril Open at Estoril, Portugal. The women's second seed easily escaped the fate of top-seeded Iveta Benesova of the Czech Republic by vanquishing her second-round opponent in less than one hour. Benesova was beaten 7-5, 6-4 by non-seed Jarmila Groth of Slovakia. Also, Russian Ekaterina Makarova, the No.