Upper Austria Ladies: Muchova brushes aside Sorribes Tormo to move into last eight
Karolina Muchova defeated Sara Sorribes Tormo 6-2, 6-3 on Thursday evening and will play Russian Anastasia Potapova, the No 6 seed, in the next round
Karolina Muchova, Stuttgart, 2021
Top seed Karolina Muchova moved into the quarter-finals of the Upper Austria Ladies by defeating Spanish qualifier Sara Sorribes Tormo 6-2, 6-3 at the TipsArena in Linz.
Muchova, ranked No 19, will play Russian Anastasia Potapova, the No 6 seed, next.
In the previous round of the Linz tournament, Sorribes Tormo, ranked No 99, won against New Zealander Lulu Sun (6-3, 6-3).
Linz WTA 500, other second-round results (TipsArena, hard, USD 1.064.510, most recent results first):
- Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich
- Anna Blinkova beat Elina Svitolina (2): 6-4, 6-4
- Petra Martic (Q) beat Elina Avanesyan (7): 6-4, 4-6, 7-5
- Dayana Yastremska (5) beat Antonia Ruzic (Q): 7-5, 6-1
- Anastasia Potapova beat Rebecca Sramkova: 7-6 (1), 6-4
- Maria Sakkari (3) beat Viktoriya Tomova: 6-3, 6-2
- Clara Tauson (8) beat Sorana Cirstea: 6-2, 6-4
