Citi Open: Halep retires, Kalinskaya moves into last eight

Anna Kalinskaya benefited from the abandonment of Simona Halep (7-5, 2-0) on Wednesday evening and will face the winner of the match between Chinese Lin Zhu and Estonian Kaia Kanepi, the No 6 seed, in the next round

Simona Halep of Romania in action during the first round of the 2022 Mutua Madrid Open WTA 1000 tennis tournament against Shuai Zhang of China (Rob Prange/AFP7 via ZUMA Press Wire)

Tennis Majors

August 3, 2022

Russian Anna Kalinskaya reached the quarter-finals of the Citi Open when Romanian Simona Halep, the No 3 seed, retired on Wednesday evening.

Kalinskaya, ranked No 71, led 7-5, 2-0 when Halep, ranked No 16, pulled out on Wednesday.

Halep called for a medical time out, suffering from the heat (33 degrees, 42% humidity) and prefered to retire.

We've seen this problem before in the past and sadly it happened again today, the heat was just too much for Simona. She did her best, fighting back from 0-4 to 5 all before losing the 1st set. Anna Kalinskaya defeated Simona Halep 7-5, 2-0 retirement. pic.twitter.com/LAmlxivtPN
— Romanian Tennis (@WTARomania) August 3, 2022

The Russian will play the winner of the match between Chinese Lin Zhu and Estonian Kaia Kanepi, the No 6 seed, next.

Anna Kalinskaya defeated American Madison Brengle (6-3, 6-0) in the previous round. In the 32, the Romanian won against Spanish qualifier Cristina Bucsa (6-3, 7-5).