Pera moves into Budapest quarter-finals, defeating seed No5 Sasnovich

American qualifier Bernarda Pera reached the quarter-finals of the Hungarian Grand Prix by defeating Belarusian Aliaksandra Sasnovich, the No 5 seed, 7-5, 6-2 at Római Tennis Academy in Budapest on Wednesday evening.

Pera, ranked No 130, will face the winner of the match between Italian Elisabetta Cocciaretto and Czech Katerina Siniakova next.

The American won against Spanish lucky loser Marina Bassols Ribera (6-2, 7-5) in the previous round of the Hungarian Open. Sasnovich, ranked No 36, beat Hungarian qualifier Fanny Stollar (6-3, 0-6, 6-3).

Budapest WTA 250, other second-round results (Római Tennis Academy, clay, EUR 203.024, most recent results first):

• Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Katerina Siniakova: to be scheduled
• Yulia Putintseva vs. Laura Pigossi: to be scheduled
• Xiyu Wang vs. Ana Bogdan: to be scheduled
• Aleksandra Krunic vs. Shuai Zhang : to be scheduled
• Anna Bondar vs. Despina Papamichail: wednesday
• Martina Trevisan (2) beat Kateryna Baindl (Q): 6-4, 7-5
• Lesia Tsurenko beat Kamilla Rakhimova: 6-7 (1), 6-4, 7-5