Indian Wells: Gauff has to fight against Peterson to reach quarter-finals

American Coco Gauff, the No 6 seed, edged out Swede Rebecca Peterson 6-3, 1-6, 6-4 to advance to the quarter-finals of the Indian Wells at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Tuesday.

She was down in all three sets before coming back to win – her 29th straight victory against a player ranked outside the Top 50.

Gauff, ranked No 6, will face the winner of the match between Czech Barbora Krejcikova, the No 16 seed, and Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, the second seed, next.

The 19-year-old American won against Spanish qualifier Cristina Bucsa (6-2, 6-4) and Czech Linda Noskova (6-4, 6-3) earlier in the tournament.

In the previous rounds of the Indian Wells tournament, Peterson, ranked No 103, defeated Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk (7-5, 5-7, 7-5), Chinese Shuai Zhang, the No 22 seed (3-0 ret.) and Swiss Jil Teichmann (3-6, 6-3, 6-1).

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Indian Wells WTA 1000, other last 16 results (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 8.800.000, most recent results first):

• Iga Swiatek vs. Emma Raducanu
• Sorana Cirstea vs. Caroline Garcia
• Elena Rybakina vs. Varvara Gracheva
• Petra Kvitova vs. Jessica Pegula
• Marketa Vondrousova vs. Karolina Muchova
• Barbora Krejcikova vs. Aryna Sabalenka
• Maria Sakkari vs. Karolina Pliskova: tuesday