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Toronto, July 29: World No. 1 Novak Djokovic of Serbia headlined the top seeded players who advanced to the quarterfinals on the fourth day of the Rogers Cup tennis tournament at the Aviva Centre here Thursday.
Djokovic defeated 37-year-old Czech opponent Radek Stepanek in straight sets 6-2, 6-4 Thursday to reach the last eight stage of the tournament in nine of the last 10 times since making his tournament debut in 2007.
The remaining top five seeds all advanced. Second seed Stan Wawrinka beat Jack Sock 7-6, 6-2, No. 3 Kei Nishikori defeated Rajeev Ram 6-3, 6-4 and No. 4 Milos Raonic triumphed over Jared Donaldson 6-2, 6-3 all in straight sets while No. 5 Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic needed three sets 6-4, 6-7, 4-6 to get the better of Ryan Harrison, his opponent from America.
The lone upset of the night occurred when South African Kevin Anderson ousted No. 12 seed Bernard Tomic of Australia in three sets 6-4, 3-6, 6-4. Of the eight remaining players in the tournament, six of them are the top-10 seeds, with No. 10 Gael Monfils of France being the only seeded player to not receive a first-round bye.
Anderson and Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov are the remaining unseeded players. Should the top seeds come out of the top in the quarters, the tournament will be set for interesting matchups Saturday as Djokovic would face Raonic and Wawrinka would face Nishikori.
