Canadian Open: Pegula books spot in quarter-finals

American Jessica Pegula, the No 4 seed, advanced to the quarter-finals of the Canadian Open by beating Italian Jasmine Paolini 6-4, 6-0 at Stade IGA in Montreal on Thursday evening.

Pegula, ranked No 3, will play the winner of the match between No 9 seed Marketa Vondrousova and American Coco Gauff, the No 6 seed, next.

First of the 8 into the quarterfinals! 🙌@JPegula defeats Paolini and slides into her 10th quarterfinals of the season.#NBO23 pic.twitter.com/8g22No6AU8

— wta (@WTA) August 10, 2023

Ahead of her victory, the American won against Kazakh lucky loser Yulia Putintseva (6-4, 6-4).

Paolini, ranked No 49, won against Croat Donna Vekic (7-6 (3), 6-2) and American Madison Keys, the No 13 seed (W/O) in the previous rounds of the Rogers Cup.

Montreal WTA 1000, other last 16 results (Stade IGA, hard, USD 2.788.468, most recent results first):

• Liudmila Samsonova vs. Aryna Sabalenka
• Petra Kvitova vs. Belinda Bencic
• Leylah Fernandez vs. Danielle Collins
• Sloane Stephens vs. Elena Rybakina
• Marketa Vondrousova vs. Coco Gauff
• Marie Bouzkova vs. Daria Kasatkina
• Iga Swiatek vs. Karolina Muchova