Elena-Gabriela Ruse of Romania saved 8 of 9 break points and knocked off No. 3 seed Elise Mertens of Belgium 6-3, 6-3 Thursday to advance to the quarterfinals at the Libema Open in \u2018s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.<\/p>\n
The only seeded player to advance Thursday was Czech No. 8 Barbora Krejcikova, a 6-1, 6-4 winner over Belgium’s Hanne Vandewinkel. Austria’s Anastasia Potapova, the fifth seed, retired due to illness down 6-1, 2-0 to Turkey’s Zeynep Sonmez.<\/p>\n
Robin Montgomery, an American ranked No. 484 in the world, took down Belgium’s Greet Minnen 6-4, 7-6 (4), winning 34 of 46 first-service points (73.9%). Poland’s Magda Linette and Ukraine’s Daria Snigur also moved on to the quarters.<\/p>\n
HSBC Championships<\/p>\n
All matches at the WTA 500 event were rained out Thursday at London.<\/p>\n
No. 1 seed Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan still needs to play Germany’s Tatjana Maria in the Round of 16. That match will kick off Friday’s slate, while No. 2 seed Amanda Anisimova and No. 6 seed Iva Jovic are scheduled to play in an all-American quarterfinal clash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elena-Gabriela Ruse of Romania saved 8 of 9 break points and knocked off No. 3 seed Elise Mertens…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-730872","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\/730872","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=730872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}