Berlin Open: Garcia cruises into quarter-finals
Caroline Garcia beat Jaimee Fourlis 6-3, 6-2 on Wednesday afternoon. She’ll play the winner of the match between Argentinian Nadia Podoroska and Czech Petra Kvitova, the No 7 seed, in the next round
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Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia, the No 3 seed, reached the quarter-finals of the Berlin Open by winning against Australian qualifier Jaimee Fourlis 6-3, 6-2 at Rot-Weiss Tennis Club on Wednesday afternoon.
Garcia, ranked No 4, will play the winner of the match between Argentinian Nadia Podoroska and Czech Petra Kvitova, the No 7 seed, next.
In the previous round of the Berlin tournament, the Frenchwoman beat German wildcard Sabine Lisicki (7-6 (2), 6-3).
Fourlis, ranked No 218, benefited from the abandonment of Chinese qualifier Xinyu Wang (3-6, 7-5) in the previous round of the Berlin tournament.
Berlin WTA 500, other last 16 results (Rot-Weiss Tennis Club, grass, EUR 678.814, most recent results first):
- Marketa Vondrousova vs. Jule Niemeier
- Maria Sakkari vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich
- Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Coco Gauff
- Aryna Sabalenka vs. Veronika Kudermetova
- Nadia Podoroska vs. Petra Kvitova
- Donna Vekic vs. Elena Rybakina
- Elina Avanesyan vs. Anna Blinkova: wednesday
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