Navarro, Townsend Attain Nationwide Financial institution Open Quarterfinals
American’s Taylor Townsend and Emma Navarro cruised into the quarterfinals of the Nationwide Financial institution Open on Friday.
Townsend, who was very spectacular in the course of the day session, defeated No. 4 seed Jelena Ostapenko 6-2, 6-1. Hitting 5 aces and profitable 76 % of her first serve factors, Townsend broke her larger ranked opponent on six events.
At the moment ranked No. 71 on the earth, Townsend will subsequent face Navarro for a spot within the semifinals.
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Navvaro, who’s the event’s No. 8 seed, dismissed No. 11 seed Marta Kostyuk 7-5, 7-5.
The 23-year-old American reached the quarterfinals of Wimbledon and fourth spherical of the French Open in 2024.
Nonetheless to come back on Friday, defending champion Jessica Pegula will face Ashlyn Krueger and high seed Coco Gauff and No. 2 seed Aryna Sabalenka shall be in motion.
Over in Montreal, all play was cancelled resulting from ongoing extreme thunder storms.
All spherical of 32 and 16 matches shall be performed tomorrow.
Prime seed Jannik Sinner, No. 2 seed Alexander Zverev, No. 4 seed Hubert Hurkacz and No. 5 seed Andrey Rublev are nonetheless alive within the event.
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