Tallinn Open: Bencic advances to quarter-finals defeating Boutler
Belinda Bencic won against Katie Boulter 6-4, 6-7 (2), 6-3 on Wednesday night. She’ll face the winner of the match between Chinese Shuai Zhang, the No 8 seed, and Croat Donna Vekic in the next round
Belinda Bencic of Switzerland in action during the quarter-final of the 2022 bett1Open WTA 500 tennis tournament against Veronika Kudermetova of Russia (Zuma/Panoramic)
Swiss Belinda Bencic, the second seed, beat qualifier Katie Boulter 6-4, 6-7 (2), 6-3 to reach the last eight of the Tallinn Open at the Forus Tennis Centre on Wednesday night.
Bencic, ranked No 14, will face the winner of the match between Chinese Shuai Zhang, the No 8 seed, and Croat Donna Vekic next.
The Swiss won against Estonian wildcard Elena Malygina (6-0, 6-2) in the previous round. Boulter, ranked No 145, won against Romanian Jaqueline Cristian (6-3, 6-1).
Tallinn WTA 250, other second-round matches (Forus Tennis Centre, hard, EUR 251.750, most recent results first):
- Shuai Zhang vs. Donna Vekic : later in Tallinn
- Ysaline Bonaventure vs. Jil Teichmann : later in Tallinn
- Anett Kontaveit vs. Tereza Martincova : later in Tallinn
- Barbora Krejcikova vs. Marta Kostyuk : later in Tallinn
- Linda Noskova vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia : later in Tallinn
- Viktorija Golubic vs. Karolina Muchova : later in Tallinn
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