Hungarian Grand Prix: Putintseva reaches last eight
Yulia Putintseva beat Laura Pigossi 4-6, 6-1, 6-2 on Thursday afternoon and will play Ukrainian Lesia Tsurenko in the next round
Kazakh Yulia Putintseva, the No 3 seed, won against Brazilian lucky loser Laura Pigossi 4-6, 6-1, 6-2 to move into the last eight of the Hungarian Grand Prix at Római Tennis Academy in Budapest on Thursday.
Putintseva, ranked No 32, will face Ukrainian Lesia Tsurenko next.
Ahead of her victory, the Kazakh defeated Slovak Anna-Karolina Schmiedlova (6-4, 6-1).
Pigossi, ranked No 125, beat Swede Rebecca Peterson (7-5, 6-3) in the previous round of the Hungarian Open.
Budapest WTA 250, other second-round results (Római Tennis Academy, clay, EUR 203.024, most recent results first):
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Katerina Siniakova
- Xiyu Wang beat Ana Bogdan: 7-6 (2), 7-6 (10)
- Aleksandra Krunic beat Shuai Zhang (6): 6-1, 6-0
- Anna Bondar (9) beat Despina Papamichail (Q): 6-2, 6-3
- Bernarda Pera (Q) beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich (5): 7-5, 6-2
- Martina Trevisan (2) beat Kateryna Baindl (Q): 6-4, 7-5
- Lesia Tsurenko beat Kamilla Rakhimova: 6-7 (1), 6-4, 7-5
