Monastir Open: Cornet moves into last eight
Alize Cornet defeated Harriet Dart 6-3, 6-4 on Wednesday afternoon. She’ll play the winner of the match between Russian Anastasia Potapova, the No 6 seed, and Slovenian Tamara Zidansek in the next round
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Frenchwoman Alize Cornet, the No 3 seed, defeated Harriet Dart 6-3, 6-4 to move into the quarter-finals of the Monastir Open at the Monastir Tennis Club on Wednesday afternoon.
Cornet, ranked No 37, will face the winner of the match between Russian Anastasia Potapova, the No 6 seed, and Slovenian Tamara Zidansek next.
Ahead of her victory, the Frenchwoman won against Brazilian Laura Pigossi (7-6 (3), 6-0).
Dart, ranked No 96, beat Spaniard Nuria Parrizas Diaz (6-2, 6-4) in the previous round of the Jasmin Open Tunisia.
Monastir WTA 250, other second-round results (Monastir Tennis Club, hard, USD 251.750, most recent results first):
- Magdalena Frech vs. Veronika Kudermetova
- Anastasia Potapova vs. Tamara Zidansek
- Petra Martic vs. Moyuka Uchijima
- Ons Jabeur vs. Evgeniya Rodina
- Despina Papamichail vs. Elise Mertens
- Diane Parry beat Lucrezia Stefanini (Q): 6-3, 1-0 ret.
- Claire Liu beat Katerina Siniakova (7): 7-5, 6-2
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