No. 1 seed Ann Li defeated Turkey’s Zeynep Sonmez 6-3, 6-1 on Thursday to move into the quarterfinals of the Japan Open in Osaka.<\/p>\n
It was 2-2 in the opening set before the 26-year-old American won 10 of the next 12 games to finish in 88 minutes. Li delivered six aces, saved all six break points she faced and posted a 22-13 advantage in winners. Her opponent in the quarterfinals will be Austria’s Lilli Tagger.<\/p>\n
Li was the only seeded player in action at the WTA 250 event. Katerina Siniakova of the Czech Republic advanced with a 6-4, 6-1 defeat of Poland’s Magda Linette. Mary Stoiana survived a 6-2, 2-6, 6-3 battle with Japan’s Moyuka Uchijima, and Antonia Ruzic of Croatia was leading 6-4 with Kayla Day retired after 52 minutes. <\/p>\n
Ningbo Open<\/p>\n
Defending champ and World No. 1 Elena Rybakina moved into the quarterfinals in China after Uzbekistan’s Polina Kudermetova was forced to retire down 5-0 in the opening set.<\/p>\n
After spending only 30 minutes on the court Thursday, the top-seeded Rybakina should be rested for her meeting with Katarzyna Kawa of Poland. Kawa overcame nine double faults to knock off No. 5 seed Belinda Bencic of Switzerland 7-5, 6-2 in 1 hour and 43 minutes.<\/p>\n
Fourth-seeded American Iva Jovic also reached the last eight, finishing a 6-4, 6-3 win against Italy’s Jasmine Paolini in 82 minutes. Jovic converted six of 11 break points to set up a showdown with No. 6 Diana Shnaider of Russia, a 7-5, 6-4 winner against Alexandra Eala of the Philippines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No. 1 seed Ann Li defeated Turkey’s Zeynep Sonmez 6-3, 6-1 on Thursday to move into the quarterfinals…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":937353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-937352","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\/937352","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=937352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/937353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}