Top-seeded and Prague native Marie Bouzkova moved into the quarterfinals with a 7-5, 6-4 victory over Carol Young Suh Lee on Wednesday at the Prague Open in the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n
It was not easy for Bouzkova, who won one of her four WTA singles titles in Prague last year. She trailed 5-3 in the first set, before running off the final four games and finished off her inexperienced opponent with a break of serve in a 10-point final game of the match.<\/p>\n
Bouzkova will meet countrywoman and fifth-seeded Tereza Valentova in Friday’s quarterfinals. Valentova rallied to defeated Australian Maya Joint 1-6, 6-0, 6-3, winning 63-of-101 points in the final two sets.<\/p>\n
In the other two matches, eighth-seeded Daria Snigur of Ukraine eliminated Turkey’s Ayla Aksu, 6-3, 3-2 and Dominika Salkova, of the Czech Republic routed France’s Oceane Dodin, 6-1, 6-1.<\/p>\n
MSC Hamburg Ladies Open<\/p>\n
Second-seeded Anhelina Kalinina of Ukraine headlined a list of four seeded players that advanced to the quarterfinals in Germany.<\/p>\n
Kalinina defeated Argentina’s Maria Lourdes Carle, 6-1, 6-3 and will face fifth-seeded German Tamara Korpatsch, who got past countrywoman Julia Stusek, 6-0, 3-6, 6-3. Stusek, ranked No. 435 in the WTA, only held her serve once in the final set.<\/p>\n
In other second round matches, fourth-seeded Anna Bodnar of Hungary outlasted Germany’s Noma Noha Akugue 6-1, 3-6, 7-5, but eighth-seeded Sinja Kraus of Austria fell to Armenia’s Alina Charaeva 5-7, 7-5, 7-5.<\/p>\n
In first round action, Egypt’s Mayar Sherif, who just captured the tournament in Romania two days ago, upset sixth-seeded Simona Waltert of Switzerland 5-7, 6-4, 7-6 (3); France’s Elsa Jacquemot defeated German wild-card Tessa Johanna Brockmann, 7-5, 6-1 and Spain’s Paula Badosa eliminated Poland’s Katarzyna Kawa 7-5, 6-4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top-seeded and Prague native Marie Bouzkova moved into the quarterfinals with a 7-5, 6-4 victory over Carol Young…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-820587","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\/820587","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=820587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}