Western & Southern Open: Pegula through to quarter-finals

No 6 seed Jessica Pegula advanced to the last eight of the Western & Southern Open by beating qualifier Taylor Townsend 6-2, 6-3 at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Cincinnati on Friday night.

Pegula, ranked No 6, will face Canadian Leylah Fernandez next.

Jessica Pegula won against Karolina Muchova (5-7, 6-4, 6-2) in the previous round of the Cincy Open.

In the previous rounds of the Cincy Open, Townsend, ranked No 53, edged out wildcard Caroline Dolehide (3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7)) and won against Russian Daria Kasatkina, the No 9 seed (6-1, 2-6, 6-1).

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
• Paula Badosa beat Yulia Putintseva: 6-4, 6-4
• 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