Tennis: Errani rolls back the years to beat Pliskova in Palermo

Veteran Sara Errani warmed the home crowd when she came from behind to beat Kristyna Pliskova of the Czech Republic in three sets to reach the quarter-finals of the Palermo Open on Wednesday. The 33 year-old Errani may be languishing at 169 in the world but she still retains plenty of clay court know-how which enabled her to recover from the loss of the first set to world number 69 Pliskova. Errani, the runner-up at the French Open eight years ago, came back to win 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 in two hours and one minute and now faces up-and-coming Frenchwoman Fiona Ferro in the last eight.