Porsche Grand Prix: Badosa reaches quarter-finals, faces Sabalenka next

Wildcard Paula Badosa defeated qualifier Cristina Bucsa 6-1, 6-2 to move into the quarter-finals of the Porsche Grand Prix at the Porsche-Arena in Stuttgart on Thursday.

Badosa, ranked No 31, will face Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, the second seed, next.

In the previous round of the Stuttgart Open, Paula Badosa won against Russian Daria Kasatkina, the No 7 seed (6-1, 6-1).

Bucsa, ranked No 77, won against German qualifier Tamara Korpatsch (3-6, 6-4, 6-0) during the 32 of the Stuttgart Open.

Stuttgart WTA 500, other last 16 results (Porsche-Arena, EUR 780.637, most recent results first):

• Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Elena Rybakina
• Tatjana Maria vs. Caroline Garcia
• Iga Swiatek vs. Qinwen Zheng
• Anastasia Potapova beat Coco Gauff (5): 6-2, 6-3
• Karolina Pliskova beat Donna Vekic: 6-2, 6-7 (5), 7-6 (5)
• Ons Jabeur (3) beat Jelena Ostapenko: 1-6, 7-5, 6-3
• Aryna Sabalenka beat Barbora Krejcikova: 6-2, 6-3