Top-seeded Mirra Andreeva won 75.8% of her first-serve points (25 of 33) and needed just 81 minutes to post a 6-4, 6-2 victory over Sloane Stephens on Wednesday in the second round of the Upper Austria Ladies Linz in Linz, Austria.<\/p>\n
Andreeva, who received a first-round bye, overcame 33 unforced errors and hit just 13 winners against Stephens. The 18-year-old Russian will face fifth-seeded Sorana Cirstea of Romania in Friday’s quarterfinals.<\/p>\n
Cirstea held a 5-0 lead in the opening set in her second-round match before Dalma Galfi of Hungary retired due to injury.<\/p>\n
Fourth-seeded Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia battled for a 6-4, 7-5 victory over Alexandra Eala of The Philippines, and Elena-Gabriela Ruse of Romania rallied for a 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 victory over Ukraine’s Dayana Yastremska.<\/p>\n
Ukraine’s Anhelina Kalinina also rallied to post a 5-7, 6-1, 6-0 victory over Hungary’s Panna Udvardy, while Austria’s Anastasia Potapova notched a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Zhang Shuai of China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top-seeded Mirra Andreeva won 75.8% of her first-serve points (25 of 33) and needed just 81 minutes to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-591414","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\/591414","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=591414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}