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Volynets heated up while winning the last seven
games, as she lost just one point total in the final three
games. The result moves the 21-year-old into a WTA Tour
quarterfinal for the first time.
Up next for Volynets is a matchup against hometown favorite
Peyton Stearns, who won the 2022 NCAA women's singles
championship for the University of Texas. Stearns downed
Sweden's Mirjam Bjorklund 6-3, 7-5 in second-round action.
Fourth-seeded Sloane Stephens of the United States defeated
Great Britain's Heather Watson 6-4, 6-4, and Varvara Gracheva
produced a 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-1 win in an all-Russian matchup
against Anna Blinkova.
Abierto GNP Seguros
Third-seeded Donna Vekic of Croatia needed just 80 minutes to
rout the United States' Emma Navarro 6-3, 6-2 in the second
round at Monterrey, Mexico.
Vekic put just 48 percent of her first serves in play, but she
prevailed by picking on Navarro's second serve, winning 14 of 18
points. Vekic also saved nine of the 11 break points she faced.
Fifth-seeded Lin Zhu of China registered a 7-6 (4), 2-6, 6-3 win
over Canada's Rebecca Marino, and Belgium's Ysaline Bonaventure
topped Russia's Kamilla Rakhimova 7-6 (2), 1-6, 6-3.
In the last match of the night, the United States' Caroline
Dolehide eliminated Slovakia's Anna Karolina Schmiedlova 6-2,
6-4.
--Field Level Media
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