Berlin Open: Sabalenka books spot in quarter-finals
Aryna Sabalenka won against Daria Kasatkina 6-1, 6-4 on Thursday evening. She’ll play Russian Anna Kalinskaya in the next round
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Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, the second seed, reached the quarter-finals of the Berlin Open by defeating Russian Daria Kasatkina 6-1, 6-4 at Rot-Weiss Tennis Club on Thursday evening.
Sabalenka, ranked No 3, will play Russian Anna Kalinskaya next.
Kasatkina, ranked No 14, won against Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk (4-6, 7-6 (6), 6-3) in the previous round of the Berlin tournament.
Berlin WTA 500, other last 16 results (Rot-Weiss Tennis Club, grass, USD 922.573, most recent results first):
- Ons Jabeur (8) beat Linda Noskova: 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-4
- Jessica Pegula (4) beat Donna Vekic (WC): 6-4, 7-5
- Coco Gauff (1) beat Ekaterina Alexandrova: 7-6 (6), 6-2
- Katerina Siniakova (Q) beat Qinwen Zheng (6): 6-4, 6-4
- Anna Kalinskaya beat Marketa Vondrousova (5): 5-5 ret.
- Elena Rybakina (3) beat Veronika Kudermetova (Q): 6-4, 7-5
- Victoria Azarenka beat Zeynep Sonmez (Q): 6-3, 6-3
