Indian Wells: Yuan upsets Kasatkina to extend win streak to nine; faces Gauff in quarters

China’s Yue Yuan advanced to the last eight of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells by defeating Russian Daria Kasatkina, the No 11 seed, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 on Wednesday evening.

The 25-year-old came from a set and 3-1 down before storming back to win the match in two and a half hours.

This was Yuan’s ninth consecutive win on tour, having won the Austin Open title earlier this month.

Yuan, ranked No 49, was the last player through to the quarter-finals on the women’s side at the WTA 1000 Series event and will play American Coco Gauff, the No 3 seed, next.

The Chinese player had won against Frenchwoman Varvara Gracheva (6-4, 6-1), No 8 seed Qinwen Zheng (6-4, 6-3) and American Caroline Dolehide (1-6, 6-4, 7-6 (2)) earlier in the week. With the win, she is also guaranteed to break into the world’s top 40 rankings for the first time next week.

With this, the quarter-final line-up for the tournament is now set:

• (1) Iga Swiatek (POL) v Caroline Wozniacki (DEN)
• (28) Anastasia Potapova v (31) Marta Kostyuk (UKR)
• (3) Coco Gauff (USA) v Yue Yuan (CHN)
• (9) Maria Sakkari (GRE) v (23) Emma Navarro (USA)

In the previous rounds of the tournament, Kasatkina, ranked No 12, won against Frenchwoman Oceane Dodin (6-3, 7-6 (5)) and edged out American Sloane Stephens (2-6, 6-4, 6-4).

Indian Wells WTA 1000, other fourth round results (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 9,258,080):

• Maria Sakkari (9) beat Diane Parry: 6-2, 3-6, 6-3
• Coco Gauff beat Elise Mertens (24): 6-0, 6-2
• Emma Navarro (23) beat Aryna Sabalenka (2): 6-3, 3-6, 6-2
• Iga Swiatek (1) beat Yulia Putintseva: 6-1, 6-2
• Caroline Wozniacki (WC) beat Angelique Kerber: 6-4, 6-2
• Marta Kostyuk (31) beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (22): 6-4, 6-1
• Anastasia Potapova (28) beat Jasmine Paolini (13): 7-5, 0-6, 6-3

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