Madrid Open: Garcia out, Sherif moves into fourth round
Mayar Sherif beat Caroline Garcia 7-6 (2), 6-3 on Saturday evening
Egyptian Mayar Sherif defeated Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia, the No 5 seed, 7-6 (2), 6-3 to advance to the fourth round of the Madrid Open at the Caja Magica on Saturday evening.
Sherif, ranked No 59, will play Belgian Elise Mertens, the No 24 seed, next.
Earlier in the tournament, the Egyptian benefited from the abandonment of Italian Camila Giorgi (4-6, 6-4) and won against Ukrainian Anhelina Kalinina, the No 30 seed (6-2, 7-6 (3)).
Garcia, ranked No 5, won against Kazakh Yulia Putintseva (6-3, 6-4).
Madrid WTA 1000, other third-round results (Caja Magica, clay, USD 7.652.174, most recent results first):
- Qinwen Zheng vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
- Barbora Krejcikova vs. Xiyu Wang
- Iga Swiatek vs. Bernarda Pera
- Petra Martic vs. Anna Kalinskaya
- Jessica Pegula vs. Marie Bouzkova
- Veronika Kudermetova vs. Anastasia Potapova
- Lesia Tsurenko vs. Daria Kasatkina
- Martina Trevisan vs. Alycia Parks
- Rebeka Masarova vs. Maria Sakkari: saturday
- Paula Badosa (26) beat Coco Gauff (6): 6-3, 6-0
- Mirra Andreeva (WC) beat Magda Linette (17): 6-3, 6-3
- Liudmila Samsonova (14) beat Jelena Ostapenko (19): 6-2, 6-0
- Aryna Sabalenka (2) beat Camila Osorio (WC): 6-4, 7-5
- Elise Mertens beat Jule Niemeier: 6-3, 6-4
- Irina-Camelia Begu (31) beat Shelby Rogers (33): 7-5, 6-2
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