Prague Open: Selekhmeteva reaches last 8
Oksana Selekhmeteva won against Chloe Paquet 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 on Wednesday afternoon and will face No 8 seed Marie Bouzkova in the next round
Russian qualifier Oksana Selekhmeteva won against Frenchwoman Chloe Paquet 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 to move into the quarter-finals of the Prague Open at TK Sparta Praha on Wednesday afternoon.
Selekhmeteva, ranked No 170, will play No 8 seed Marie Bouzkova next.
Ahead of her victory, the 19-year-old Russian beat Romanian Sorana Cirstea, the second seed (7-5, 6-4).
Paquet, ranked No 102, defeated Czech Tereza Martincova (2-6, 6-4, 6-3) in the previous round.
Prague WTA 250, other second-round results (TK Sparta Praha, hard, USD 251.750, most recent results first):
- Alize Cornet vs. Linda Noskova
- Nao Hibino vs. Barbora Krejcikova
- Anett Kontaveit vs. Lucie Havlickova
- Lin Zhu vs. Anastasia Potapova
- Marie Bouzkova beat Dominika Salkova (Q): 6-1, 6-2
- Qiang Wang (Q) beat Dalila Jakupovic (Q): 6-3, 6-1
- Magda Linette beat Viktoriya Tomova: 6-3, 6-3
