Canadian Open: Pegula books spot in quarter-finals
Jessica Pegula won against Jasmine Paolini 6-4, 6-0 on Thursday evening and will play the winner of the match between No 9 seed Marketa Vondrousova and American Coco Gauff, the No 6 seed, in the next round
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American Jessica Pegula, the No 4 seed, advanced to the quarter-finals of the Canadian Open by beating Italian Jasmine Paolini 6-4, 6-0 at Stade IGA in Montreal on Thursday evening.
Pegula, ranked No 3, will play the winner of the match between No 9 seed Marketa Vondrousova and American Coco Gauff, the No 6 seed, next.
First of the 8 into the quarterfinals! 🙌@JPegula defeats Paolini and slides into her 10th quarterfinals of the season.#NBO23 pic.twitter.com/8g22No6AU8
— wta (@WTA) August 10, 2023
Ahead of her victory, the American won against Kazakh lucky loser Yulia Putintseva (6-4, 6-4).
Paolini, ranked No 49, won against Croat Donna Vekic (7-6 (3), 6-2) and American Madison Keys, the No 13 seed (W/O) in the previous rounds of the Rogers Cup.
Montreal WTA 1000, other last 16 results (Stade IGA, hard, USD 2.788.468, most recent results first):
- Liudmila Samsonova vs. Aryna Sabalenka
- Petra Kvitova vs. Belinda Bencic
- Leylah Fernandez vs. Danielle Collins
- Sloane Stephens vs. Elena Rybakina
- Marketa Vondrousova vs. Coco Gauff
- Marie Bouzkova vs. Daria Kasatkina
- Iga Swiatek vs. Karolina Muchova
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