Upper Austria Ladies: Pavlyuchenkova into quarter-finals
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova won against Katie Boulter 7-6 (2), 6-4 on Wednesday evening. She’ll face the winner of the match between Belgian Elise Mertens, the No 4 seed, and Italian Lucia Bronzetti in the next round
Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova reached the quarter-finals of the Upper Austria Ladies by winning against Katie Boulter 7-6 (2), 6-4 at the TipsArena in Linz on Wednesday evening.
Pavlyuchenkova, ranked No 42, will face the winner of the match between Belgian Elise Mertens, the No 4 seed, and Italian Lucia Bronzetti next.
The Russian defeated Italian Martina Trevisan (6-4, 6-0) in the previous round of the Linz tournament.
In the first round of the Linz tournament, Boulter, ranked No 53, won against Italian Jasmine Paolini, the No 6 seed (6-2, 6-2).
Linz WTA 500, other second-round results (TipsArena, hard, USD 802.237, most recent results first):
- Jelena Ostapenko vs. Clara Tauson
- Anastasia Potapova vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto
- Dayana Yastremska vs. Donna Vekic
- Katerina Siniakova vs. Clara Burel
- Elise Mertens vs. Lucia Bronzetti
- Ekaterina Alexandrova (2) beat Jule Niemeier (Q): 6-3, 6-0
- Jodie Burrage (Q) beat Jaqueline Cristian (LL): 6-3, 7-6 (5)