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The four-time Grand Slam champion's next
opponent will be 2021 U.S. Open winner Emma Raducanu of Great
Britain. Raducanu, who is on the comeback trail after wrist and
ankle surgeries this time last year, beat Czech teenager Linda
Noskova 6-0, 7-5.
Ukraine's Marta Kostyuk saved five match points in the 10th game
of the third set while rallying to vanquish Chinese fifth seed
Qinwen Zheng 6-2, 4-6, 7-5. Italy's Jasmine Paolini upset No. 7
seed Ons Jabeur of Tunisia 7-6 (8), 6-4, while No. 4 Elena
Rybakina of Kazakhstan and No. 6 Marketa Vondrousova of the
Czech Republic both advanced.
Open Capfinances Rouen Metropole
Arantxa Rus of the Netherlands toppled No. 1 seed Anastasia
Pavlyuchenkova of Russia 6-3, 1-6, 6-3 in the Round of 16 in
Rouen, France.
Rus won 7 of 13 break points, broke Pavlyuchenkova's serve seven
times and capitalized on six double faults from her opponent.
No. 2 seed Caroline Garcia of France had a much easier time than
her seeded counterpart, beating Slovakia's Anna Karolina
Schmiedlova 6-1, 6-0 in just 48 minutes. No. 3 seed Anhelina
Kalinina of Ukraine beat Italy's Martina Trevisan 6-2, 6-3.
No. 4 seed Yue Yuan of China survived a two-hour, 47-minute
encounter with France's Varvara Gracheva, prevailing 6-4, 4-6,
7-6 (6) after saving two straight match points in the third-set
tiebreaker. Romanian Elena-Gabriela Ruse upset No. 7 seed Clara
Burel of France 6-0, 2-6, 6-3.
--Field Level Media
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