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Minnen, the seventh seed, ousted fourth seed
Lucia Bronzetti of Italy 6-7 (8), 6-4, 6-1.
Top seed Magda Linette of Poland avoided the upset in defeating
fifth seed Rebeka Masarova of Spain 7-5, 7-6 (6).
In the other quarterfinal between unseeded players, China's Xiyu
Wang needed three sets to get past Slovakian Viktoria Hruncakova
6-4, 4-6, 6-3.
Minnen faces Wang in one semifinal Friday, while Linette plays
Putintseva.
Guadalajara Open Akron
American Caroline Dolehide overcame an early deficit to oust a
confident Martina Trevisan of Italy 3-6, 7-6 (9), 6-3 on
Thursday in the quarterfinals in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Dolehide won 57 of 81 first-service points and saved eight of 12
break points to get past Trevisan, who eliminated top-seeded
Tunisian Ons Jabeur on Wednesday. Dolehide also fended off a
match point in the second-set tiebreaker before winning three
straight points to a force a third set that she ultimately
prevailed in.
In the semifinals, Dolehide will face countrywoman Sofia Kenin,
who was a 6-4, 6-7 (6), 6-1 winner over Canada's Leylah
Fernandez on Thursday.
Greek No. 2 seed Maria Sakkari beat Colombia's Emiliana Arango
6-3, 6-4 and third-seeded Caroline Garcia of France beat
10th-seeded Belarusian Victoria Azarenka by an identical score
in the day's other quarterfinal matches.
--Field Level Media
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