Upper Austria Ladies: Tauson cruises past Blinkova, seals place in Linz semi-finals
Clara Tauson won against Anna Blinkova 6-4, 6-3 on Friday afternoon. She’ll play Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska, the No 5 seed, in the next round
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Dane Clara Tauson, the No 8 seed, won against Russian Anna Blinkova 6-4, 6-3 to reach the semi-finals of the Upper Austria Ladies at the TipsArena in Linz on Friday.
Tauson, ranked No 39, will face Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska, the No 5 seed, next.
Ahead of her victory, the 22-year-old Dane beat Ukrainian Anhelina Kalinina (6-3, 6-3) and Romanian Sorana Cirstea (6-2, 6-4).
Blinkova, ranked No 83, won against Austrian qualifier Sinja Kraus (7-6 (3), 6-2) and Ukrainian Elina Svitolina, the second seed (6-4, 6-4) earlier in the tournament.
Linz WTA 500, other last eight results (TipsArena, hard, USD 1.064.510, most recent results first):
- Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Petra Martic
- Karolina Muchova vs. Anastasia Potapova
- Dayana Yastremska beat Maria Sakkari (3): 7-5, 6-0
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