Top-seeded Jessica Pegula overcame a slow start and produced a 3-6, 6-3, 6-0 win over Poland’s Magdalena Frech on Thursday in the second round of the Mubadala DC Open in Washington.<\/p>\n
Pegula came through in the match’s key moments, converting five break opportunities and saving 5 of 7 break points on her own serve.<\/p>\n
The 2019 Washington champion (and winner of the unofficial 2021 Washington event amid the pandemic), Pegula will oppose fifth-seeded Anna Kalinskaya of Russia in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n
Kalinskaya rallied past Indonesia’s Janice Tjen 1-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7) in the second round. Tjen had a match point with Kalinskaya serving at 4-5 in the third set, then another at 6-5 in the tiebreaker, but she didn’t take advantage of either.<\/p>\n
In other second-round matches, fourth-seeded Diana Shnaider of Russia thrashed Austria’s Anastasia Potapova 6-1, 6-2, while second-seeded Elina Svitolina of Ukraine opposed Uzbekistan’s Polina Kudermetova in the last action of the night.<\/p>\n
The Memphis Classic<\/p>\n
Two seeded U.S. players cruised into the quarterfinals in Tennessee behind dominant second-round efforts.<\/p>\n
Sixth-seeded Caty McNally downed China’s Ye-Xin Ma 6-2, 6-3, and seventh-seeded Peyton Stearns routed Russia’s Tatiana Prozorova 6-1, 6-2.<\/p>\n
McNally didn’t serve an ace, but she won 68.8% of her first-serve points compared to Ma’s 39.4% success rate on first-serve points. Stearns dominated the same stat, winding up at 64.3% to Prozorova’s 44.2%.<\/p>\n
Also moving into the quarterfinals were the Czech Republic’s Darja Vidmanova, a 6-2, 6-4 winner over Sloane Stephens, and Russia’s Kristina Liutova, who defeated Australia’s Maya Joint 3-6, 6-3, 6-3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top-seeded Jessica Pegula overcame a slow start and produced a 3-6, 6-3, 6-0 win over Poland’s Magdalena Frech…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":837654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-837653","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\/837653","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=837653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}