WTA Adelaide: Second seed Navarro reaches last eight
Emma Navarro defeated Ekaterina Alexandrova 7-6 (4), 6-4 on Wednesday and will play the winner of the match between Swiss qualifier Belinda Bencic and Russian Liudmila Samsonova in the next round
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American Emma Navarro, the second seed, moved into the last eight of the Adelaide International by winning against Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova 7-6 (4), 6-4 at the Memorial Drive Tennis Park on Wednesday.
Navarro, ranked No 8, will face the winner of the match between Swiss qualifier Belinda Bencic and Russian Liudmila Samsonova next.
Alexandrova, ranked No 27, defeated Canadian qualifier Leylah Fernandez (6-4, 3-6, 6-2) in the previous round of the tournament.
Adelaide WTA 500, other second-round matches (Memorial Drive Tennis Park, hard, USD 1,064,510):
- Emerson Jones vs. Daria Kasatkina
- Ons Jabeur vs. Yulia Putintseva
- Jelena Ostapenko vs. Madison Keys
- Marketa Vondrousova vs. Diana Shnaider
- Ashlyn Krueger vs. Paula Badosa
- Belinda Bencic vs. Liudmila Samsonova
- Jessica Pegula vs. Maria Sakkari
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