Seventh-seeded Maria Sakkari of Greece stored her WTA Indian Wells 1000 title hopes alive by battling again to beat Ukrainian Anhelina Kalinina 3-6 6-2 6-4.
Sakkari drew Kalinina to the online with a drop shot after which fired a backhand winner down the road on match level to finish the comeback.
The Greek leaned over and pumped her fists in celebration after sealing the win on a sizzling day within the Southern California desert.
“I don’t mind winning ugly,” she informed reporters.
“It doesn’t really matter. I just give myself another chance to play better the next day.”
Sakkari, a finalist in Indian Wells final yr, will subsequent face seventeenth seed Karolina Pliskova within the spherical of 16 after the Czech beat Russia’s Veronika Kudermetova 6-1 7-5.
Third-seeded American Jessica Pegula edged Russia’s Anastasia Potapova 3-6 6-4 7-5 to arrange a gathering with Petra Kvitova after the Fifteenth-seeded Czech gained a rollercoaster match in opposition to Jelena Ostapenko 0-6 6-0 6-4.
Sweden’s Rebecca Peterson dispatched Jil Teichmann of Switzerland 3-6 6-3 6-1, sixteenth seeded Czech Barbora Krejcikova beat China’s Wang Xinyu 6-2 7-6 (7-1) 6-2, and sixth-seeded American teenager Coco Gauff beat Czech Linda Noskova 6-4 6-3.
Belarusian second seed Aryna Sabalenka superior through walkover when her Ukrainian opponent Lesia Tsurenko withdrew.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
