Top seed Kontaveit hits form to reach quarter-finals in Tallinn

Estonian Anett Kontaveit, the top seed, won against Czech Tereza Martincova 6-2, 6-1 to move into the last eight of the Tallinn Open at the Forus Tennis Centre on Thursday evening.

Kontaveit, ranked No 4, will play Belgian qualifier Ysaline Bonaventure next.

The Estonian edged out Chinese Xiyu Wang (3-6, 6-2, 7-5) in the previous round.

In the previous round, Martincova, ranked No 75, defeated Swede lucky loser Mirjam Bjorklund (7-6 (6), 6-3).

Tallinn WTA 250, other second-round results (Forus Tennis Centre, hard, EUR 251.750, most recent results first):

• Kaia Kanepi beat Ann Li: 7-5, 7-5
• Donna Vekic beat Shuai Zhang (8): 6-2, 6-4
• Ysaline Bonaventure beat Jil Teichmann (9): 7-6 (8), 6-3
• Barbora Krejcikova (7) beat Marta Kostyuk: 7-5, 6-3
• Beatriz Haddad Maia (3) beat Linda Noskova (Q): 6-1, 7-5
• Karolina Muchova (WC) beat Viktorija Golubic (Q): 4-6, 6-0, 6-2
• Belinda Bencic (2) beat Katie Boulter (Q): 6-4, 6-7 (2), 6-3