Hailey Baptiste is through to her first WTA 1000 quarterfinal, backing up her upset of World No. 8 Elina Svitolina with another commanding straight-sets win — this time over No. 25 seed Jelena Ostapenko — on Monday evening in Miami.<\/p>\n
Miami:\u00a0Scores<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Draws<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Order of play<\/a><\/p>\n She defeated the former French Open champion 6-3, 6-4 in 1 hour and 23 minutes on Butch Buchholz Court and continued to control proceedings as she has throughout the week. Baptiste has yet to drop a set in four matches, with wins over Tatjana Maria, No. 19 seed Liudmila Samsonova, Svitolina and Ostapenko.<\/p>\n The American has been getting the job done behind a blistering serve, which again set the tone. In her first meeting with Ostapenko at the WTA Tour Driven by Mercedes-Benz level, she struck 11 aces and won 68% of her first-serve points. Her second serve was nearly as effective, winning 64% of those points. She was broken just once and saved nine break points in total.<\/p>\n While Ostapenko will likely rue her missed chances, it was clear early that the match was on Baptiste\u2019s racket.<\/p>\n Baptiste saved the first of those break points in the opening game to hold for 1-0. A few games later, she ripped a backhand down the line to secure the first break for 3-1. Ostapenko earned her lone break of the match in the next game, but Baptiste responded immediately with a third straight break for a 4-2 lead.<\/p>\n Serving at 5-3, Baptiste saved three more break points before another backhand winner earned her a set point, which she converted with an ace to close out the opener in 39 minutes.<\/p>\n The pivotal moment of the second set came with Ostapenko leading 2-1 and holding triple break point. Baptiste erased all three — winning each point behind her second serve — and sealed the hold with back-to-back aces. The 24-year-old moved ahead for good a few games later when an Ostapenko forehand sailed long, giving her the break for 4-3.<\/p>\n Baptiste\u2019s 10th ace set up her first match point at 5-4, and her 11th brought up a second, which she converted to seal one of the biggest wins of her career.<\/p>\n Next up is the winner of World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka and No. 23 seed Zheng Qinwen, both of whom would be first-time opponents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hailey Baptiste is through to her first WTA 1000 quarterfinal, backing up her upset of World No. 8…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,5516],"class_list":["post-203059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}