Sabalenka secures spot in Western & Southern Open quarter-finals

Aryna Sabalenka, the No 3 seed, reached the quarter-finals of the Western & Southern Open by getting the best of Ukrainian Elina Svitolina 7-5, 6-2 at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Cincinnati on Friday afternoon.

Sabalenka, ranked No 3, will next play Russian Liudmila Samsonova, the No 10 seed, next.

The Belarusian beat Italian Elisabetta Cocciaretto (6-3, 6-4) ahead of Friday’s victory.

In the previous rounds at this WTA Premier 1000 event in Cincinnati, Svitolina — ranked No 30 — defeated Chinese qualifier Yafan Wang (5-7, 6-3, 6-2) and Spanish lucky loser Jessica Bouzas Maneiro (6-4, 6-1).

Cincinnati WTA 1000, other last 16 results:

• Qinwen Zheng vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
• Jessica Pegula vs. Taylor Townsend
• Paula Badosa vs. Yulia Putintseva
• Diana Shnaider vs. Leylah Fernandez
• Mirra Andreeva vs. Jasmine Paolini: Friday
• Liudmila Samsonova beat Elina Avanesyan (LL): 4-6, 6-0, 6-3
• Iga Swiatek (1) beat Marta Kostyuk (15): 6-2, 6-2

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