Italian Open: Ostapenko hands Kasatkina bagel set, into quarter-finals
Jelena Ostapenko beat Daria Kasatkina 6-4, 4-6, 6-0 on Monday. She’ll play the winner of the match between Spaniard Paula Badosa and Czech Karolina Muchova in the next round
Jelena Ostapenko in Rome (AI/Reuters/Panoramic)
Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, the No 20 seed, moved into the quarter-finals of the Italian Open by winning against Russian Daria Kasatkina, the No 8 seed, 6-4, 4-6, 6-0 at the Foro Italico in Rome on Monday.
Ostapenko, ranked No 20, will play the winner of the match between Spaniard Paula Badosa and Czech Karolina Muchova next.
In the previous rounds of the Rome tournament, the Latvian defeated Romanian Sorana Cirstea (6-3, 3-6, 6-2) and Czech Barbora Krejcikova, the No 10 seed (7-6 (2), 6-0).
Kasatkina, ranked No 9, beat Italian wildcard Lisa Pigato (6-1, 6-2) and edged out Austrian Julia Grabher (7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (2)) earlier in the tournament.
Rome WTA 1000, other fourth-round results (Foro Italico, clay, USD 3.572.618, most recent results first):
- Iga Swiatek vs. Donna Vekic
- Paula Badosa vs. Karolina Muchova
- 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
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