Adelaide Open: Alexandrova sees off Kudermetova

Ekaterina Alexandrova won against No 8 seed Veronika Kudermetova 6-4, 6-4 to move into the quarter-finals of the Adelaide Open at the Memorial Drive Tennis Park on Wednesday afternoon.

Alexandrova, ranked No 21, will play Kazakh Elena Rybakina, the top seed, next.

In the previous round of the Adelaide tournament, Ekaterina Alexandrova edged out Pole Magda Linette (3-6, 7-6 (8), 7-5).

Kudermetova, ranked No 16, beat American lucky loser Ashlyn Krueger (6-2, 7-5) in the first round of the Adelaide tournament.

Adelaide WTA 500, other second-round results (Memorial Drive Tennis Park, hard, USD 922.573, most recent results first):

• Elena Rybakina beat Cristina Bucsa (LL): 6-3, 7-5
• Daria Kasatkina beat Anna Kalinskaya (Q): 5-7, 6-4, 7-5
• Jelena Ostapenko (6) beat Caroline Garcia: 6-4, 5-7, 6-4
• Marta Kostyuk beat Taylor Townsend (LL): 6-3, 2-6, 6-4
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Q) beat Katerina Siniakova (Q): 2-6, 6-3, 6-2
• Laura Siegemund beat Ana Bogdan (LL): 6-4, 7-5
• Jessica Pegula (2) beat Bernarda Pera (LL): 4-6, 6-2, 6-3