Hungarian Open: Seidel beats Bondar to book spot in quarter-finals
Ella Seidel beat Anna Bondar 7-5, 7-5 on Thursday afternoon and will play top seed Diana Shnaider in the next round
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German lucky loser Ella Seidel reached the last eight of the Hungarian Open by beating Hungarian Anna Bondar 7-5, 7-5 at Római Tennis Academy in Budapest.
Seidel, ranked No 166, will face top seed Diana Shnaider next.
In the previous round of the Budapest tournament, the 19-year-old German benefited from the abandonment of Japanese Moyuka Uchijima, the No 7 seed (6-1, 1-0).
Bondar, ranked No 98, defeated Serb Olga Danilovic (7-6 (5), 6-4) in the previous round of the Budapest tournament.
Budapest WTA 250, other second-round results (Római Tennis Academy, clay, USD 267.082, most recent results first):
- Diana Shnaider beat Ekaterina Makarova (Q): 6-3, 6-3
- Rebecca Sramkova beat Xiyu Wang (3): 7-6 (4), 6-3
- Eva Lys beat Bernarda Pera: 7-6 (6), 4-1 ret.
- Anna Karolina Schmiedlova beat Sara Sorribes Tormo (4): 2-6, 6-2, 6-2
- Elina Avanesyan beat Rebeka Masarova: 2-6, 7-5, 6-1
- Suzan Lamens beat Carole Monnet (Q): 6-4, 6-0
- Aliaksandra Sasnovich beat Maria Timofeeva: 6-3, 6-4
