Andreeva will next face Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk, the No 10 seed, who defeated American wildcard Sloane Stephens 7-5, 7-5. It is a rematch of their Roland Garros semifinal in June, when Andreeva beat Kostyuk 6-1, 6-3 en route to her first Grand Slam final.<\/p>\n
The win was Andreeva\u2019s, 19-year-old, 54th at WTA 1000 level, moving her past Coco Gauff\u2019s 53 for the most by any teenager since the format was introduced in 2009. It also carried broader significance for a player still working her way back to form: her first back-to-back wins since Roland Garros, and her first appearance in any tournament\u2019s last 16 since June. It is her fifth WTA 1000 last-16 of the year and her 41st win of the season overall.<\/p>\n
Tjen raised her level sharply in the second set, forcing a tiebreak that Andreeva edged 7-5 to close out the match. Andreeva had reached this round by beating Ukrainian Oleksandra Oliynykova 6-1, 6-0 in the previous round, while Tjen, ranked No 37, got past Swiss Viktorija Golubic 7-6 (8), 5-7, 7-5.<\/p>\n
Cincinnati WTA 1000, 3rd Round (Round of 32)<\/p>\n
A. Sabalenka (1) vs X. Wang<\/p>\n
S. Bejlek vs E. Alexandrova (16)<\/p>\n
M. Keys (19)\u00a0d. K. Siniakova (33): 6-1, 6-3<\/p>\n
X. Wang\u00a0d. E. Svitolina (8): W.O.<\/p>\n
C. Gauff (4)\u00a0vs A. Li (28); 6-1, 7-6<\/p>\n
M. Bouzkova (22) vs I. Jovic (15)<\/p>\n
M. Kostyuk (10)\u00a0d. S. Stephens: 7-5, 7-5<\/p>\n
M. Andreeva (5)\u00a0d. J. Tjen (32): 6-1, 7-6<\/p>\n
L. Noskova (6)\u00a0d. O. Tauson (27): 7-6, 6-2<\/p>\n
A. Anisimova (9)\u00a0d. A. Eala (17): 4-6, 6-4, 6-2<\/p>\n
S. Cirstea (16)\u00a0vs A. Kalinskaya (19), 6-7, 6-1, 5-0, ret.<\/p>\n
J. Pegula (3)\u00a0d. E. Navarro (25): 7-5, 6-2<\/p>\n
I. Swiatek (7)\u00a0vs M. Sakkari (29): 4-6, 6-1, 6-1<\/p>\n
D. Perry\u00a0d. L. Boisson: 4-6, 6-4, 6-3<\/p>\n
D. Shnaider (14)\u00a0vs M. Chwalinska (19): 6-2, 7-6<\/p>\n
E. Rybakina (2)\u00a0vs Frech: 6-4, 7-4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andreeva will next face Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk, the No 10 seed, who defeated American wildcard Sloane Stephens 7-5,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":860180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-860179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}