Danielle Collins, world number 22announced in January that he would retire from tennis at the end of the year, but the American is having such a sweet moment that he extended it Thursday to WTA 500 Charleston (USA) beat the current champion, the Tunisian Ons Jabeur (no. 6), and beat the American team in the afternoon Sloane Stephens (#40) to reach the quarterfinals.
Last week’s Miami Open champion, Collins, due to Wednesday’s rain in Charleston, had to face two matches on Thursday but he won them amazingly: 6-3, 1-6 and 6- 3 in two hours and two minutes against Jabeur and 6-2 and 6-2 in one hour and 11 minutes against Stephens.
Collins has won ten games in a row and will play for a place in the semifinals against Belgian Elise Mertens (no. 30).
For her part, American Jessica Pegula (no. 5), the first seed in this tournament, outlasted Polish Magda Linette (no. 63) 6-2 and 6-2 in just one hour of play. Pegula will face Belarusian Victoria Azarenka (no. 22) in the quarterfinals.
Finally, Greek Maria Sakkari (no. 7) will play in the quarterfinals against Russian Veronika Kudermetova (no. 19) and Russian Daria Kasatkina (no. 11) will do the same with Romanian Jaqueline Cristian ( No. 83). ), the surprise in Charleston and who in this tournament has already left the top tennis players such as the American Madison Keys (no. 18) or the American Emma Navarro (no. 20) as well.
Source: La Verdad
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