WTA Adelaide: Top seed Pegula beats Sakkari in straight sets
Jessica Pegula won against Maria Sakkari 6-4, 6-1 on Wednesday and will face the winner of the match between American lucky loser Ashlyn Krueger and Spaniard Paula Badosa, the No 5 seed, in the next round
Jessica Pegula at the 2023 Toray Pan Pacific Open
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American Jessica Pegula, the top seed, reached the quarter-finals of the WTA Adelaide International by winning against Greek lucky loser Maria Sakkari 6-4, 6-1 at the Memorial Drive Tennis Park on Wednesday.
Pegula, ranked No 7, will play the winner of the match between American lucky loser Ashlyn Krueger and Spaniard Paula Badosa, the No 5 seed, next.
Sakkari, ranked No 32, beat Linda Noskova (6-3, 6-3) in the previous round of the tournament.
Adelaide WTA 500, other second-round matches (Memorial Drive Tennis Park, hard, USD 1,064,510, most recent results first):
- Emma Navarro (2) beat Ekaterina Alexandrova: 7-6 (4), 6-4
- 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
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