Hailey Baptiste moved into the quarterfinals of the Abu Dhabi Open with a 7-6(6), 0-6, 6-3 victory against No. 4 seed and fellow American Emma Navarro on Tuesday in the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n
Baptiste<\/a> struck seven aces \u200band saved five of nine break points to win in two hours and six minutes<\/a>. Up next is No. 5 seed Liudmila Samsonova<\/a> \u200cof Russia, a 6-2, 6-2<\/a> winner against Indonesia’s Janice Tjen<\/a>.<\/p>\n No. 3 \u200cseed Clara Tauson<\/a> of Denmark and American McCartney Kessler<\/a> will meet in another quarter-final after their straight-set victories. Tauson took out Switzerland’s Simona Waltert<\/a> 6-3, 6-1<\/a>, and Kessler upended No. 6 Leylah Fernandez<\/a> of Canada \u20606-3, 6-2<\/a>.<\/p>\n Transylvania Open<\/p>\n No. 2 seed and home favourite Jaqueline Cristian<\/a> survived a \u200c6-2, 2-6, 7-5<\/a> challenge from Italy’s Lucrezia Stefanini<\/a> in a first-round match \u200bin Cluj-Napoca, Romania.<\/p>\n Cristian converted four of five break points in the two-hour, 18-minute match, including a crucial break in the 11th game of the decisive set before serving out the match. Cristian’s second-round opponent will be Ukraine’s Daria Snigur<\/a>, who defeated France’s Tiantsoa Rakotomanga \u200cRajaonah<\/a> 6-3, 6-3<\/a>.<\/p>\n In other first-round action, No. 4 seed Xinyu Wang<\/a> of China defeated Spain’s Kaitlin Quevedo<\/a> 6-3, 6-0<\/a> and No. 5 Anastasia Potapova<\/a> of Austria beat Italy’s Lucia Bronzetti<\/a> 5-7, 6-4, 7-5<\/a>. \u2060<\/p>\n Ukraine’s Oleksandra Oliynykova<\/a> moved into the quarter-finals with a 6-4, 6-4<\/a> upset of No. 8 Anna Bondar<\/a> of Hungary. China’s Yue Yuan<\/a> also made the quarters, outlasting Spain’s Sara Sorribes<\/a> Tormo 4-6, 6-2, 7-6(5)<\/a> in three hours and 24 minutes.<\/p>\n Ostrava Open<\/p>\n Unseeded American Katie Volynets<\/a> knocked off No. 1 seed Tatjana Maria<\/a> of Germany 7-5, 6-1<\/a> to advance to the quarter-finals in the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n Volynets saved three of four break points and converted five of 11 break opportunities to set up a meeting with US \u2060compatriot Alycia Parks<\/a>, who notched a 6-4, 6-2<\/a> victory over \u200cArmenia’s Elina Avanesyan<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sixth-seeded American Caty McNally<\/a> also made the quarterfinals with a 6-4, 6-4<\/a> win over Czech Tereza Martincova<\/a>. In first-round action, No. 4 seed Rebecca Sramkova<\/a> of Slovakia beat Czech Vendula Valdmannova<\/a> 6-2, 6-3<\/a>, and No. 5 Viktorija Golubic<\/a> \u2060of Switzerland defeated Austria’s Sinja Kraus<\/a> 6-4, 6-0.<\/a> Britain’s \u200bKatie Boulter<\/a> was a 6-4, 3-6, 6-1<\/a> survivor against Czech Lucie \u2060Havlickova<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hailey Baptiste moved into the quarterfinals of the Abu Dhabi Open with a 7-6(6), 0-6, 6-3 victory against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-407346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}