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In the second round match Ekshibarova, who was ranked as high as 300 two years ago ,but took a year off the circuit cam e through the qualifiers. Ekshibarova trounced her opponent Tour in just 1 hour 15 mins to make it to the quarterfinals.
Ekshibarova on her comeback had won a futures in Greece and reached 4 semifinals in October- November 2010 to make it to the top 500.
In the quarterfinals Ekshibarova will take on seventh seeded Hisami Kanae of Japan who trounced Indra Biggi of Italy 6-0 and 6-3.