Yuliia Starodubtseva, who entered the week on a six-match losing streak, is through to the quarterfinals of the Abierto GNP Seguros event in Monterrey, Mexico.<\/p>\n
The 26-year-old Ukrainian upset seventh-seeded Janice Tjen of Indonesia 6-4, 6-3 in the second round on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Starodubtseva got to her first career WTA final in April, when she lost to Jessica Pegula for the title in Charleston, S.C. However, since winning her first-round match at Nottingham, England, in June, Starodubtseva had fallen in the opening round of five consecutive tournaments before beating Austria’s Lilli Tagger to open the Monterrey event.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, Starodubtseva finished with a 5-0 edge in aces and converted four of her five break-point opportunities.<\/p>\n
France’s Diane Parry also advanced to the quarterfinals, defeating Ukraine’s Oleksandra Oliynykova 6-4, 7-6 (3). One more second-round match was scheduled for Tuesday night, with Taiwan’s En-Shuo Liang, a lucky loser from qualifying, due to face the Czech Republic’s Nikola Bartunkova.<\/p>\n
In first-round action, No. 8 seed Spaniard Cristina Bucsa, Hungary’s Panna Udvardy, Uzbekistan’s Maria Timofeeva and the Czech Republic’s Darja Vidmanova earned straight-set wins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yuliia Starodubtseva, who entered the week on a six-match losing streak, is through to the quarterfinals of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":871751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-871750","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\/871750","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=871750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}