Tokyo Open: Rybakina makes quarter-finals

Kazakh Elena Rybakina, the second seed, moved into the quarter-finals of the Tokyo Open by defeating Canadian Leylah Fernandez 6-4, 6-3 at the Ariake Coliseum on Thursday morning.

Rybakina, ranked No 7, will face Canadian Victoria Mboko, the No 9 seed, next.

In the previous round of the Tokyo tournament, Fernandez, ranked No 33, won against Greek qualifier Maria Sakkari (7-6 (5), 6-4).

Tokyo WTA 500, other second-round results (Ariake Coliseum, hard, USD 1.064.510, most recent results first):

• Wakana Sonobe vs. Sofia Kenin
• Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Jaqueline Cristian
• Belinda Bencic (5) beat Varvara Gracheva (Q): 6-4, 6-3
• Karolina Muchova (8) beat Maya Joint: 6-3, 7-5
• Anna Kalinskaya beat Diana Shnaider (7): 7-6 (4), 2-6, 7-6 (5)
• Victoria Mboko beat Eva Lys (Q): 6-1, 6-1
• Linda Noskova (6) beat McCartney Kessler: 5-7, 6-3, 6-4