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Alexandra Eala ousted the defending Mubadala DC Open champion, No. 7 seed Leylah Fernandez, with a 6-2, 7-6 (1) victory to advance to the quarterfinals in Washington.
The Filipina competitor dropped 5 straight video games to fall right into a 5-1 second-set gap earlier than responding with 5 straight recreation wins after which a dominant tiebreaker exhibiting in opposition to her Canadian opponent the place she gained the ultimate 4 factors.
Third-seeded Naomi Osaka of Japan did not fall into the identical lure, reaching the DC quarterfinals for the primary time after American Ashlyn Krueger retired as a result of a proper ankle damage whereas trailing 6-3, 3-1. Osaka hit simply 47% of her first serves and gained simply 54.5% of her first-serve factors however lined for that by profitable 18 of 25 (72%) second-serve factors and by no means going through a break level.
Osaka will face Elisabetta Coccioretto for a semifinal spot after the Italian outlasted No. 8 seed Emma Navarro for a 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 triumph. Russia’s Liudmila Samsonova additionally reached the quarterfinals with a 6-2, 6-2 defeat of China’s Xinyu Wang.
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The upsets continued in second-round motion, with No. 4 seed Zeynep Sonmez of Turkey and No. 5 seed Camila Osorio of Colombia getting knocked off, leaving only one top-five seed left standing on the Tennessee event.
Sonmez jumped forward earlier than taking a 3-6, 7-5, 7-5 defeat in opposition to the U.S.’s Elvina Kalieva. Sonmez gained simply 50% of her service factors and confronted a staggering 18 break-point probabilities, solely managing to save lots of 10 of them, and getting damaged within the last recreation of each the second and third units.
Osorio fell to Russia’s Anastasia Zakharova in straight units, 6-4, 6-3. Osorio had all three aces within the match but in addition all 9 double faults. She was damaged to start every of the units and fell in a 4-0 gap within the second set.
Zakharova will subsequent tackle Mexico’s Renata Zarazua, who beat Germany’s Tatjana Maria 6-4, 6-4 within the last match of the day. Katie Volynets of the United States beat Iryna Shymanovich of Belarus 6-4, 6-2 to succeed in the quarterfinals.
–Field Level Media