National Bank Open: Sabalenka moves into last 16
Aryna Sabalenka beat Sara Sorribes Tormo 6-4, 6-3 on Wednesday evening and will play American Coco Gauff, the No 10 seed, in the next round
Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, the No 6 seed, advanced to the last 16 of the National Bank Open by beating Spaniard Sara Sorribes Tormo 6-4, 6-3 at the Aviva Centre in Toronto on Wednesday evening.
Sabalenka, ranked No 6, will play American Coco Gauff, the No 10 seed, next.
In the previous round of the Canadian Open, Sorribes Tormo, ranked No 41, edged out American qualifier Claire Liu (7-6 (4), 2-6, 7-6 (5)).
Toronto WTA 1000, other second-round results (Aviva Centre, hard, USD 2.527.250, most recent results first):
- Bianca Andreescu vs. Alize Cornet
- Belinda Bencic vs. Serena Williams
- Kaia Kanepi vs. Garbine Muguruza
- Qinwen Zheng vs. Ons Jabeur
- Jil Teichmann vs. Anett Kontaveit: wednesday
- Yulia Putintseva beat Paula Badosa (4): 7-5, 1-0 ret.
- Beatriz Haddad Maia beat Leylah Fernandez (13): 7-6 (4), 6-1
- Simona Halep (15) beat Shuai Zhang: 6-4, 6-2
- Iga Swiatek (1) beat Ajla Tomljanovic (Q): 6-1, 6-2
- Jessica Pegula (7) beat Asia Muhammad (Q): 6-2, 7-5
- Alison Riske-Amritraj beat Jelena Ostapenko (16): 7-6 (2), 0-6, 7-5
- Coco Gauff beat Elena Rybakina: 6-4, 6-7 (8), 7-6 (3)
- Camila Giorgi beat Elise Mertens: 6-3, 7-5
- Karolina Pliskova (14) beat Amanda Anisimova: 6-1, 6-1
- Maria Sakkari (3) beat Sloane Stephens: 6-2, 4-6, 6-2
