Tennis in the Land: Zhu moves into quarter-finals
Lin Zhu beat Julia Grabher 6-4, 6-1 on Tuesday evening. She’ll face the winner of the match between Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia, the top seed, and American Peyton Stearns in the next round
Chinese Lin Zhu defeated Austrian Julia Grabher 6-4, 6-1 to reach the last 8 of the Tennis in the Land at Cleveland’s iconic Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica in Flats West Bank on Tuesday evening.
Zhu, ranked No 48, will face the winner of the match between Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia, the top seed, and American Peyton Stearns next.
The Chinese won against Russian Anna Blinkova, the No 8 seed (6-0, 6-3) in the previous round.
In the previous round, Grabher, ranked No 54, beat Chinese qualifier Xiyu Wang (6-3, 6-4).
Cleveland WTA 250, other last 16 matches ( Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica in Flats West Bank, hard, USD 271.363, most recent results first):
- Sara Sorribes Tormo vs. Veronika Kudermetova
- Sloane Stephens vs. Mirra Andreeva
- Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich
- Leylah Fernandez vs. Clara Tauson
- Caroline Garcia vs. Peyton Stearns
- Xinyu Wang vs. Jasmine Paolini