WTA Hobart: Yuan overcomes Wang to make quarters
Yue Yuan won against Xinyu Wang 7-5, 6-3 on Wednesday. She’ll play the winner of Marie Bouzkova and Yulia Putintseva next
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Qualifier Yue Yuan reached the quarter-finals of the Hobart International by beating No 4 seed Xinyu Wang 7-5, 6-3 at the Hobart ’s Domain Tennis Centre on Wednesday night.
Yuan, ranked No 73, will face the winner of the match between No 5 seed Marie Bouzkova and Kazakh qualifier Yulia Putintseva next.
In the previous round of the Hobart tournament, Yue Yuan edged out American Sloane Stephens (6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (5)).
Wang, ranked No 34, won against Australian wildcard Olivia Gadecki (6-3, 3-6, 6-3) in the first round of the Hobart tournament.
Hobart WTA 250, other second-round results (Hobart ’s Domain Tennis Centre, hard, USD 267.082, most recent results first):
- Marie Bouzkova vs. Yulia Putintseva
- Daria Saville vs. Sofia Kenin
- Magdalena Frech vs. Emma Navarro
- Lin Zhu vs. Caroline Dolehide: wednesday
- Elise Mertens (1) beat Anna Karolina Schmiedlova (Q): 6-2, 6-3
- Viktoriya Tomova (LL) beat Tatjana Maria (9): 6-0, 6-1
- Arantxa Rus beat Varvara Gracheva (8): 6-2, 6-3
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