Britain’s Harriet Dart outlasted No. 2 seed Janice Tjen 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 Wednesday to advance to the quarterfinals of the Guangzhou Open in China.<\/p>\n
Dart raced to a 3-0 lead in the deciding set and held on to win in 2 hours and 28 minutes. She served seven aces and saved six of nine break points to set up a meeting with No. 5 Paula Badosa of Spain, who needed only 67 minutes to post a 6-1, 6-4 win against Sinja Kraus of Austria.<\/p>\n
China’s Han Shi also moved into the final eight of the WTA 250 tournament with a 7-5, 6-4 defeat of Ukraine’s Dayana Yastremska. In the lone remaining first-round match, Czech Katerina Siniakova rallied for a 2-6, 6-1, 6-4 upset against No. 3 Lanlana Tararudee of Thailand.<\/p>\n
Toray Pan Pacific Open<\/p>\n
No. 3 seed Diana Shnaider of Russia held off Aliaksandra Sasnovich and moved into the quarterfinals with a 6-3, 5-7, 6-3 victory in 2 hours and 31 minutes in Tokyo.<\/p>\n
On a day when all four matches in the WTA 500 tournament went to a third set, Shnaider saved 13 of 18 break points and broke Sasnovich’s serve seven times — three times in the deciding set. Shnaider next faces No. 8 Alexandra Eala of the Philippines, who rallied for a 4-6, 6-2, 6-0 win over Australia’s Talia Gibson.<\/p>\n
Unseeded Maya Joint of Australia and Kamilla Rakhimova of Uzbekistan will meet in another quarterfinal. Joint defeated Spain’s Cristina Bucsa 6-1, 2-6, 6-4 and Rakhimova outlasted Russia’s Ekaterina Alexandrova 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (5) in 2 hours, 51 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain’s Harriet Dart outlasted No. 2 seed Janice Tjen 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 Wednesday to advance to the quarterfinals…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":897728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-897727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}