Cilic reaches Zagreb quarters

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02/04/2010 - Zagreb, Croatia (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Top-seeded and defending champion Marin Cilic moved into the quarterfinals, while his fellow Croatian crowd favorite Ivan Ljubicic came up a second-round loser at the Zagreb Indoors tennis event.

The Australian Open semifinalist Cilic cruised past Austrian Daniel Koellerer 6-2, 6-1, while the second-seeded and former top-five star Ljubicic succumbed to Slovakian Lukas Lacko 7-6 (7-3), 5-7, 7-6 (7-5) on the hardcourts at Dom Sportova.

Cilic beat Mario Ancic in last year's all-Croatian final here, while the veteran Ljubicic was the inaugural Zagreb winner back in 2006.

The world No. 10 Cilic's quarterfinal opponent on Friday will be his seventh- seeded countryman Ivo Karlovic, who got past French qualifier Alexandre Sidorenko 7-6 (7-4), 7-6 (10-8) on Day 4.

In other action on Thursday, unseeded Philipp Petzschner overcame sixth-seeded fellow German Benjamin Becker 1-6, 7-6 (7-4), 7-6 (8-6) and Germany's Michael Berrer dismissed Croatian qualifier Petar Jelenic 6-4, 6-3.

The other quarters will pit third-seeded Austrian Jurgen Melzer against Ukrainian Illya Marchenko, fourth-seeded Serb Viktor Troicki versus Berrer and Petzschner against Lacko.

This week's champion will collect $95,500.

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