Tokyo Open: Rybakina makes quarter-finals
Elena Rybakina defeated Leylah Fernandez 6-4, 6-3 on Thursday night. She’ll face Canadian Victoria Mboko, the No 9 seed, in the next round
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Kazakh Elena Rybakina, the second seed, moved into the quarter-finals of the Tokyo Open by defeating Canadian Leylah Fernandez 6-4, 6-3 at the Ariake Coliseum on Thursday morning.
Rybakina, ranked No 7, will face Canadian Victoria Mboko, the No 9 seed, next.
In the previous round of the Tokyo tournament, Fernandez, ranked No 33, won against Greek qualifier Maria Sakkari (7-6 (5), 6-4).
Tokyo WTA 500, other second-round results (Ariake Coliseum, hard, USD 1.064.510, most recent results first):
- Wakana Sonobe vs. Sofia Kenin
- Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Jaqueline Cristian
- Belinda Bencic (5) beat Varvara Gracheva (Q): 6-4, 6-3
- Karolina Muchova (8) beat Maya Joint: 6-3, 7-5
- Anna Kalinskaya beat Diana Shnaider (7): 7-6 (4), 2-6, 7-6 (5)
- Victoria Mboko beat Eva Lys (Q): 6-1, 6-1
- Linda Noskova (6) beat McCartney Kessler: 5-7, 6-3, 6-4
