{"id":7445,"date":"2023-03-28T06:13:24","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T06:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/miami-open-elena-rybakina-beats-elise-mertens-to-reach-quarter-finals-2\/"},"modified":"2023-03-28T06:13:26","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T06:13:26","slug":"miami-open-elena-rybakina-beats-elise-mertens-to-reach-quarter-finals-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/miami-open-elena-rybakina-beats-elise-mertens-to-reach-quarter-finals-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Open: Elena Rybakina beats Elise Mertens to reach quarter-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Elena Rybakina will play Italy’s Martina Trevisan in the quarter-finals<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina is through to the Miami Open quarter-finals after beating Elise Mertens in straight sets.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Kazakh 10th seed defeated her Belgian opponent 6-4 6-3.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Rybakina is now unbeaten in 11 matches, while victory in Miami would see her achieve the rare ‘Sunshine Double’ following her <\/span>title win at Indian Wells<\/span><\/a> earlier in March.<\/span><\/p>\n

She will play Italy’s Martina Trevisan in the last eight.<\/span><\/p>\n

It will mark a first WTA 1000 quarter-final for 25th seed Trevisan after she beat Latvia’s former French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko 6-3 6-3.<\/span><\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Belarus’ world number two Aryna Sabalenka and world number three Jessica Pegula of the United States both progressed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Australian Open champion Sabalenka will play Sorana Cirstea in the last eight after she beat Czech Republic’s Barbora Krejcikova 6-3 6-2, while Pegula defeated Poland’s Magda Linette 6-1 7-5 to set up a meeting with Russia’s Anastasia Potapova.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bianca Andreescu’s tournament is over after the Canadian withdraw from her match against Ekaterina Alexandrova because of injury with the score 7-6 (7-0) 0-2.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Stefanos Tsitsipas progressed to the last 16 of the men’s singles with a 6-3 4-6 6-4 victory over Chilean qualifier Cristian Garin in what was his first appearance on court in Miami.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Greek received a first-round bye before second-round opponent Richard Gasquet withdrew through injury.<\/span><\/p>\n

Second seed Tsitsipas will face Karen Khachanov next, after the Russian breezed past Czech Jiri Lehecka 6-2 6-4.<\/span><\/p>\n

Argentina’s 2022 semi-finalist Francisco Cerundolo stunned Canada’s world number six Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-2 7-5 to set up a meeting with Italian Lorenzo Sonego, who knocked out 12th seed Frances Tiafoe 6-3 6-4.<\/span><\/p>\n

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