Western & Southern Open: Badosa books spot in quarter-finals, defeating Putintseva
Paula Badosa won against Yulia Putintseva 6-4, 6-4 on Friday night. She’ll play the winner of the match between Chinese Qinwen Zheng, the No 7 seed, and Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the next round
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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
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