Vancouver Open: Peterson moves into last eight
Rebecca Peterson benefited from the forfeit of Catherine Harrison on Thursday night. She’ll face the winner of the match between Australian Maddison Inglis and Chinese Xinyu Wang, the No 4 seed, in the next round
Swede Rebecca Peterson, the No 5 seed, advanced to the quarter-finals of the Vancouver Open after American qualifier Catherine Harrison withdrew before the match on Thursday night at Hollyburn Country Club.
Peterson, ranked No 87, will play the winner of the match between Australian Maddison Inglis and Chinese Xinyu Wang, the No 4 seed, next.
Ahead of her victory, the Swede defeated Slovak Anna Karolina Schmiedlova (6-2, 6-2).
Harrison, ranked No 251, won against Greek Despina Papamichail (6-1, 6-3) in the previous round.
Vancouver WTA 125, other second-round results (Hollyburn Country Club, hard, USD 115.000, most recent results first):
- Priscilla Hon vs. Lucia Bronzetti
- Arianne Hartono vs. Emma Navarro
- Maddison Inglis vs. Xinyu Wang
- Madison Brengle vs. Coco Vandeweghe
- Chloe Paquet beat Heather Watson: 6-4, 6-2
- Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva beat Jodie Burrage: 7-5, 6-7 (5), 7-6 (7)
- Valentini Grammatikopoulou (Q) beat Cadence Brace (WC): 7-5, 6-2
