WTA Adelaide: Kostyuk into quarters after beating Townsend in three

Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk edged out American lucky loser Taylor Townsend 6-3, 2-6, 6-4 to move into the quarter-finals of the Adelaide Open at the Memorial Drive Tennis Park on Wednesday night.

Kostyuk, ranked No 41, will play the winner of the match between Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia and Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, the No 6 seed, next.

The 21-year-old Ukrainian won against Anhelina Kalinina (7-6 (3), 6-1) ahead of her victory.

In the previous round of the Adelaide tournament, Townsend, ranked No 80, beat Belarusian qualifier Aliaksandra Sasnovich (6-3, 7-6 (4)).

Adelaide WTA 500, other second-round results (Memorial Drive Tennis Park, hard, USD 922.573, most recent results first):

• Elena Rybakina vs. Cristina Bucsa
• Daria Kasatkina vs. Anna Kalinskaya
• Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Veronika Kudermetova
• Caroline Garcia vs. Jelena Ostapenko: wednesday
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Q) beat Katerina Siniakova (Q): 2-6, 6-3, 6-2
• Laura Siegemund beat Ana Bogdan (LL): 6-4, 7-5
• Jessica Pegula (2) beat Bernarda Pera (LL): 4-6, 6-2, 6-3