Western & Southern Open: Badosa books spot in quarter-finals, defeating Putintseva

Spaniard Paula Badosa reached the last eight of the Western & Southern Open by beating Kazakh Yulia Putintseva 6-4, 6-4 at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Cincinnati on Friday night.

Badosa, ranked No 37, will play the winner of the match between Chinese Qinwen Zheng, the No 7 seed, and Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova next.

The Spaniard won against American wildcard Peyton Stearns (6-2, 7-5) and Russian Anna Kalinskaya, the No 13 seed (6-3, 6-2) earlier in the tournament.

In the previous rounds of the Cincy Open, Putintseva, ranked No 33, won against qualifier Harriet Dart (4-6, 6-0, 6-1) and edged out American Coco Gauff, the second seed (6-4, 2-6, 6-4).

Cincinnati WTA 1000, other last 16 results (Lindner Family Tennis Center, hard, USD 3.211.715, most recent results first):

• Qinwen Zheng vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
• Jessica Pegula vs. Taylor Townsend
• Leylah Fernandez beat Diana Shnaider: 6-1, 6-4
• Aryna Sabalenka (3) beat Elina Svitolina: 7-5, 6-2
• Mirra Andreeva beat Jasmine Paolini (5): 3-6, 6-3, 6-2
• Liudmila Samsonova (10) beat Elina Avanesyan (LL): 4-6, 6-0, 6-3
• Iga Swiatek (1) beat Marta Kostyuk (15): 6-2, 6-2