Badosa beats Pavlyuchenkova at Western & Southern Open

Paula Badosa defeated Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-3, 6-2 to advance to the semi-finals of the Western & Southern Open at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Cincinnati on Sunday night.

Badosa, ranked No 37, will play American Jessica Pegula, the No 6 seed, next.

In the previous rounds the Spaniard got past American wildcard Peyton Stearns (6-2, 7-5), Russian Anna Kalinskaya, the No 13 seed (6-3, 6-2) and Kazakh Yulia Putintseva (6-4, 6-4).

Pavlyuchenkova, ranked No 28, beat Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia, the No 17 seed (4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-3), Dane wildcard Caroline Wozniacki (7-5, 6-4) and Chinese Qinwen Zheng, the No 7 seed (7-5, 6-1) earlier in the tournament.

Cincinnati WTA 1000, other last 8 results (Lindner Family Tennis Center, hard, USD 3.211.715, most recent results first):

• Jessica Pegula beat Leylah Fernandez: 7-5, 6-7 (1), 7-6 (3)
• Aryna Sabalenka (3) beat Liudmila Samsonova (10): 6-3, 6-2
• Iga Swiatek (1) beat Mirra Andreeva: 4-6, 6-3, 7-5

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