She will meet world number 10 Angelique Kerber of Germany who beat Japan’s Kurumi Nara 6-2, 6-2 in her second-round match Thursday.
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Australia’s Samantha Stosur has beaten Puerto Rico’s Monica Puig 6-4, 6-4 to secure her quarter-final place at the Hong Kong Open.
“It was a good match for me”, Jankovic said after a victory that was in stark contrast to her labored 6-4, 6-2 win over Romanian qualifier Ana Bogdan a day earlier.
Stosur will play Britain’s Heather Watson who beat Taiwan’s Lee Ya-hsuan in three sets on Thursday morning.
Organisers of the Prudential Hong Kong Tennis Open at Victoria Park got the best result they could have hoped for yesterday as the seeded stars on show held up their end of the bargain to make it into the last eight.
But to warm applause on centre court, she managed to avert that ignominy by holding serve for the first time in the match against the rampant Garcia.
Venus Williams will play her second- round match today, when she takes on Wang Yafan of China.
“She’s a young and up and coming player and she’s had a great season. I’m in the next round”, said Williams of the match against Wang.
Jankovic will come up against Daria Gavrilova in the last eight after the sixth seed ousted Lara Arruabarrena 7-6 (7-4) 6-1.
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The former British colony has been kind to the American and she has always done well in Hong Kong and next up for the seven-time Grand Slam victor is a clash with France’s Alize Cornet.
