Hailey Baptiste moved into the quarterfinals of the Abu Dhabi Open with a 7-6 (6), 0-6, 6-3 victory against No. 4 seed and fellow American Emma Navarro on Tuesday in the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n
Baptiste struck seven aces and saved five of nine break points to win in two hours and six minutes. Up next is No. 5 seed Liudmila Samsonova of Russia, a 6-2, 6-2 winner against Indonesia’s Janice Tjen.<\/p>\n
No. 3 seed Clara Tauson of Denmark and American McCartney Kessler will meet in another quarterfinal after their straight-sets victories. Tauson took out Switzerland’s Simona Waltert 6-3, 6-1 and Kessler upended No. 6 Leylah Fernandez of Canada 6-3, 6-2.<\/p>\n
Transylvania Open<\/p>\n
No. 2 seed and home favorite Jaqueline Cristian survived a 6-2, 2-6, 7-5 challenge from Italy’s Lucrezia Stefanini in a first-round match in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.<\/p>\n
Cristian converted four of five break points in the two-hour, 18-minute match, including a crucial break in the 11th game of the decisive set before serving out the match. Cristian’s second-round opponent will be Ukraine’s Daria Snigur, who defeated France’s Tiantsoa Rakotomanga Rajaonah 6-3, 6-3.<\/p>\n
In other first-round action, No. 4 seed Xinyu Wang of China defeated Spain’s Kaitlin Quevedo 6-3, 6-0 and No. 5 Anastasia Potapova of Austria beat Italy’s Lucia Bronzetti 5-7, 6-4, 7-5. Ukraine’s Oleksandra Oliynykova moved into the quarterfinals with a 6-4, 6-4 upset of No. 8 Anna Bondar of Hungary. China’s Yue Yuan also made the quarters, outlasting Spain’s Sara Sorribes Tormo 4-6, 6-2, 7-6 (5) in three hours and 24 minutes.<\/p>\n
Ostrava Open<\/p>\n
Unseeded American Katie Volynets knocked off No. 1 seed Tatjana Maria of Germany 7-5, 6-1 to advance to the quarterfinals in the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n
Volynets saved three of four break points and converted five of 11 break opportunities to set up a meeting with U.S. compatriot Alycia Parks, who notched a 6-4, 6-2 victory over Armenia’s Elina Avanesyan.<\/p>\n
Sixth-seeded American Caty McNally also made the quarterfinals with a 6-4, 6-4 win over Czech Tereza Martincova. In first-round action, No. 4 seed Rebecca Sramkova of Slovakia beat Czech Vendula Valdmannova 6-2, 6-3 and No. 5 Viktorija Golubic of Switzerland defeated Austria’s Sinja Kraus 6-4, 6-0. Britain’s Katie Boulter was a 6-4, 3-6, 6-1 survivor against Czech Lucie Havlickova.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hailey Baptiste moved into the quarterfinals of the Abu Dhabi Open with a 7-6 (6), 0-6, 6-3 victory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-451968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}