It was a convincing performance at the end of a day on which just one seed fell out of the men's draw -- with 2006 finalist Marcos Baghdatis coming from two sets down to beat 17th seed David Ferrer 4-6 3-6 7-6 6-3 6-1.
It was another impressive result for Leon Garcia in Hawaii, who on Monday knocked out top seed Anne Kremer of Luxembourg in three sets.
Henin, who put out second seed Nadia Petrova of Russia in her first round match, secured a 6-4 6-3 victory in one hour 17 minutes to reach the quarterfinals.
Galimberti took the place of French number six seed Fabrice Santoro, who pulled out of the tournament because of tiredness after winning the Australian Open doubles title.
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Other players left sitting it out were third seed Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic, who was due to play home hope Tommy Robredo, fifth seed Milos Raonic of Canada and Japan's sixth seed Kei Nishikori.
Second seed Nicolas Kiefer pulled out of the event in Halle due to a recurring wrist injury.
Meanwhile, fourth seed Nikolay Davydenko pulled out of the tournament because of an elbow injury he struggled with in practice.
Meanwhile, former champion and local favorite Philipp Kohlschreiber is out of the BMW Open in Munich after going out in straight sets to second seed Marin Cilic.
That pair were joined in the quarterfinals by three other Spaniards, with Albert Montanes producing the shock of the day by dumping out fourth seed Marin Cilic 6-4 6-4.
By demolishing Kansas and Florida over the weekend, Michigan silenced a growing chorus of skepticism about the Big Ten conference, which had been hailed all year as the toughest conference in college basketball, only to watch six of its seven teams in the tournament bow out ahead of Sunday's action, including Indiana, the top seed in the East.
"The way it's changed since 2000 is, a high seed used to get you out of the first weekend, " Izzo said.
Defending Olympic champion Nicolas Massu of Chile was dumped out by number seven seed David Nalbandian, while Russian fourth seed Nikolay Davydenko went down 7-5 6-3 to Paul-Henri Mathieu.
But Kuznetsova's compatriot, 10th seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenko, was knocked out of the tournament by Kazakhstan's Ksenia Pervak .
Top seed Roger Federer of Switzerland went out to Marcos Baghdatis in the third round while Serbian ace Djokovic of Serbia joined him on the sidelines with a 7-5 6-3 defeat to Ivan Ljubicic of Croatia in their last 16 match.
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Swiss maestro Federer pulled out of the hard court tournament to elevate Murray to second seed behind Novak Djokovic in Canada.
Tsonga will face Thiemo De Bakker of the Netherlands next after he knocked out number 32 seed Guillermo Garcia-Lopez in four sets.
But 25th seed Anabel Medina Garrigues of Spain crashed out 1-6 6-4 6-0 to South African Chanelle Scheepers, while two-time grand slam champion Svetlana Kuznetsova, seeded 26th, lost 1-6 7-6 7-6 to Czech Iveta Benesova.
It was another strong workout for the seven-time Grand Slam winner, who is playing only her second event since coming out of retirement and who needed three hours to defeat fifth seed Elena Dementieva in the previous round.
Her exit followed that of fifth seed and defending Meghann Shaughnessy who crashed out 6-4 6-4 to Switzerland's Marie-Gaianeh Mikaelian.
Meanwhile second seed Marcos Baghdatis has been forced to pull out of the tournament because of a shoulder injury he suffered in practice on Sunday.
The seventh seed served out to love in the final game of each set to reach the last four of the tournament for the fourth time as he bids for a first final appearance.
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