Italian Open: Muchova out in fourth round
Paula Badosa won against Karolina Muchova 6-4, 6-7 (4), 6-2 on Tuesday afternoon and will play Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, the No 20 seed, in the next round
Spaniard Paula Badosa advanced to the last 8 of the Italian Open by defeating Czech Karolina Muchova 6-4, 6-7 (4), 6-2 at the Foro Italico in Rome on Tuesday afternoon.
Badosa, ranked No 35, will face Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, the No 20 seed, next.
The Spaniard won against German qualifier Anna-Lena Friedsam (4-6, 6-2, 7-6 (2)), Tunisian Ons Jabeur, the No 4 seed (6-1, 6-4) and Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk, the No 32 seed (6-4, 6-2) earlier in the tournament.
In the previous rounds of the Rome tournament, Muchova, ranked No 52, beat Russian lucky loser Kamilla Rakhimova (6-4, 7-5), Italian Martina Trevisan, the No 18 seed (3-6, 6-3, 7-5) and Italian Camila Giorgi (7-6 (4), 6-2).
Rome WTA 1000, other fourth-round results (Foro Italico, clay, USD 3.572.618, most recent results first):
- Iga Swiatek (1) beat Donna Vekic (21): 6-3, 6-4
- Jelena Ostapenko beat Daria Kasatkina (8): 6-4, 4-6, 6-0
- Elena Rybakina (7) beat Marketa Vondrousova: 6-3, 6-3
- Veronika Kudermetova (11) beat Marie Bouzkova (27): 6-2, 6-2
- Beatriz Haddad Maia (12) beat Camila Osorio (Q): 6-3, 6-3
- Anhelina Kalinina (30) beat Madison Keys (19): 2-6, 6-2, 6-4
- Qinwen Zheng (22) beat Xiyu Wang: 6-4, 3-6, 6-1
People in this post
More tennis news
“Yours forever” – Fucsovics gets engaged to Nini Molnar
“Wish I’d be Federer, I could make an ace at 40/15” – Fonseca wants to change Wimbledon 2019 champion
Moretton returns as French Tennis Federation president
South Korea’s Kwon steps away from tennis for compulsory military service
“I didn’t feel that anger towards Federer or Djokovic when I played them” – Kyrgios on playing Nadal
