Eastbourne Open: Blinkova moves into last eight
Anna Blinkova defeated Lulu Sun 6-3, 6-3 on Wednesday afternoon and will face the winner of the match between Australian Maya Joint and No 7 seed Emma Raducanu in the next round
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Russian Anna Blinkova beat New Zealander Lulu Sun 6-3, 6-3 to move into the quarter-finals of the Eastbourne Open at the Devonshire Park Lawn Club on Wednesday afternoon.
Blinkova, ranked No 69, will face the winner of the match between Australian Maya Joint and No 7 seed Emma Raducanu next.
Ahead of her victory, the Russian won against Marie Bouzkova (6-4, 2-6, 6-3).
Sun, ranked No 46, defeated Australian Daria Kasatkina, the top seed (7-5, 2-6, 6-3) in the previous round of the Eastbourne tournament.
Eastbourne WTA 250, other second-round results (Devonshire Park Lawn Club, grass, USD 389.000, most recent results first):
- Dayana Yastremska vs. Francesca Jones
- Kamilla Rakhimova vs. Peyton Stearns
- Alexandra Eala vs. Jelena Ostapenko
- Maya Joint vs. Emma Raducanu: wednesday
- Rebecca Sramkova vs. Varvara Gracheva: wednesday
- Barbora Krejcikova (2) beat Jodie Burrage (WC): 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (3)
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova beat Kimberly Birrell (Q): 7-5, 7-5
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