Charleston Open: Keys completes quarter-final line up, meets Kasatkina next

American Madison Keys, the No 9 seed, reached the last eight of the Charleston Open by beating Pole Magda Linette, the No 8 seed, 6-2, 3-6, 6-1 at the Family Circle Tennis Center on Thursday.

Keys, ranked No 22, will face Russian Daria Kasatkina, the No 3 seed, next.

Keys holds an 8-1 edge over Kasatkina in their head-to-head meetings.

Ahead of her victory, the American won against wildcard Emma Navarro (6-4, 6-3) and qualifier Hailey Baptiste (6-1, 6-2).

Linette, ranked No 19, edged out Russian Varvara Gracheva (6-7 (3), 7-5, 6-4) in the previous round of the tournament.

With this the quarter-final line-up in Charleston is complete

• Pegula (1) vs Badosa (12)
• Kasatkina (3) vs Keys (9)
• Bencic (4) vs Alexandrova (7)
• Jabeur (2) vs Kalinskaya

Charleston WTA 500, other round of 16 results (Family Circle Tennis Center, clay, USD 780,637)

• Belinda Bencic (4) beat Shelby Rogers: 4-6, 7-5, 6-2
• Daria Kasatkina beat Bernarda Pera: 6-3, 7-6 (3)
• Jessica Pegula (1) beat Irina-Camelia Begu (15): 7-5, 4-6, 6-4
• Ekaterina Alexandrova (7) beat Julia Grabher: 6-4, 6-2
• Ons Jabeur (2) beat Caroline Dolehide (WC): 6-3, 7-5
• Anna Kalinskaya beat Victoria Azarenka (6): 6-4, 7-6 (5)
• Paula Badosa (12) beat Diana Shnaider: 6-1, 6-3

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