Quarterfinals: Washington and San Diego

The American hard court season gets into full swing next week with Masters/Premier 5 events in Canada and Cincinatti but quality 500/Premier events are in session this week in Washington and San Diego.  Here is a mid-week update.

Washington (ATP 500)
The quarterfinal field is set but shockingly features no Americans.  The top 4 that hail from the USA were present (Roddick, Isner, Querrey, and Fish) but somehow all were upset in the 2nd or 3rd rounds.  Roddick will drop outside the top 10 for the first time in ages.  Here are the eight remaining players, from eight different countries:

1) Tomas Berdych (CZE)
3) Fernando Verdasco (ESP)
4) Marin Cilic (CRO)
8) Marcos Baghdatis (CYP)
13) Gilles Simon (FRA)
Janko Tipsarevic (SRB)
Xavier Malisse (BEL)
David Nalbandian (ARG)

This afternoon and evening's quarterfinal matchups will be Berdych vs Malisse, winner to play Verdasco vs Baghdatis, and Cilic vs Tipsarevic will get Simon vs Nalbandian.

In last year's final Del Potro (injured) defeated Roddick (3rd round loss to Simon).
Semifinalists were Isner (3rd round loss to Malisse) and Gonzalez (injured).
Berdych has successfully defended his quarterfinal appearance while Karlovic and Haas are still injured, and Soderling declined to show up.

San Diego
This tournament has a fairly 30-player field seeing that Govortsova (38 at the time) was the last direct acceptance.  The tournament had gone fairly according to plan through the first round but then there were some surprising yesterday.  Here are the eight ladies left standing:

2) Samantha Stosur (AUS)
4) Agnieszka Radwanska (POL)
5) Flavia Pennetta (ITA)
7) Shahar Peer (ISR)
Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS)
Daniela Hantuchova (SVK)
Alisa Kleybanova (RUS)
Coco Vandeweghe (USA)
 
This afternoon's matchups are Kleybanova vs Hantuchova with the winner getting Radwanska vs Peer, while Kuznetsova vs Vandeweghe plays Stosur vs Pennetta.
 
Flavia Pennetta is defending champion, having beating Stosur in last year's final, making for perhaps a premature meeting between the two in this year's quarters.  Cirstea (lost in quarters of Copenhagen this morning) and Sharapova (absent) were in last year's semis, while only one quarterfinalist from 2009 is still standing, Radwanska.  Zheng and Zvonareva were knocked out yesterday, and Urszula Radwanska did not make the main draw.
 
Also there is a WTA International tournament going on in Copenhagen were one semifinal is already set and the two other quarterfinals will start a couple hours.  Chakvetadze upset Hercog in the quarters and Zakopalova is also through to the semis.  Anna C. seems to be regaining her form.  Wozniacki and Li are the overwhelming favorites to make the other semi spots.