The British Emma Raducanu beat the Czech Linda Noskova and became the rival of number one in the world and first favorite, Polish Iga Swiatek in the Stuttgart tournament, while the Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk survived five match points against China’s Quinwen Zheng and qualified to the quarterfinals where he can play in the American Cory Gauff.
Raducanu won 6-0 and 7-5 against Noskova and play Swiatek in the quarterfinals by defeating the Belgians Elise Mertens in the second round, and bring the number of consecutive wins in the German event to nine.
The tennis player from Warsaw, winner of the last two editionstook 94 minutes to resolve the commitment and stay on track to his third straight title in the event.
The epic is the rivalry between Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk against China’s Quinwen Zheng with five match points. Kostyuk survived that setback and won the match 6-2, 4-6 and 7-5 after two hours and 40 minutes. The European will face the American Cori Gauff, third favorite
In addition, the fourth seed, the Kazakh Elena Rybakinadefeated the Russian in three sets Veronika Kudermetova (7-6(3), 1-6 and 6-4) and will face the Italian Jasmine Paolini which dashed Tunisian expectations Ounce Jabeur which he won 7-6(8) and 6-4.
Marketa Vondrousova fulfilled her condition of sixth favorite and eliminated the Russian Anastasia Potapova (7-6(5) and 6-1) to meet Belarusian Aryna Sabalenkasecond seed, finalist three times in the Stuttgart tournament.
Source: La Verdad
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