Prague Open: Hibino reaches quarter-finals
Nao Hibino won against Viktoria Hruncakova 6-1, 7-5 on Thursday afternoon. She’ll play the winner of the match between Chinese Yue Yuan and wildcard Tereza Martincova in the next round
Nao Hibino,
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Japanese lucky loser Nao Hibino advanced to the last eight of the Prague Open by winning against Slovak qualifier Viktoria Hruncakova 6-1, 7-5 at TK Sparta Praha on Thursday.
Hibino, ranked No 136, will play the winner of the match between Chinese Yue Yuan and wildcard Tereza Martincova next.
The Japanese edged out Italian Sara Errani (7-5, 3-6, 6-4) in the previous round of the Prague tournament.
In the 32 of the Prague tournament, Hruncakova, ranked No 117, edged out Chinese Xinyu Wang, the No 7 seed (3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5)).
Prague WTA 250, other last 16 results (TK Sparta Praha, hard, USD 251.750, most recent results first):
- Ankita Raina vs. Linda Noskova
- Yue Yuan vs. Tereza Martincova
- Xiyu Wang vs. Anna Karolina Schmiedlova: thursday
- Alize Cornet (6) beat Kaia Kanepi: 7-6 (1), 5-7, 6-4
- Tamara Korpatsch (Q) beat Yanina Wickmayer: 4-0 ret.
- Kateryna Baindl (8) beat Jule Niemeier: 5-0 ret.
- Jaqueline Cristian beat Emiliana Arango (Q): 6-4, 6-3
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