Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina is thru to the Miami Open quarter-finals after beating Elise Mertens in straight units.
The Kazakh tenth seed defeated her Belgian opponent 6-4 6-3.
Rybakina is now unbeaten in 11 matches, whereas victory in Miami would see her obtain the uncommon ‘Sunshine Double’ following her title win at Indian Wells earlier in March.
She is going to play Italy’s Martina Trevisan within the final eight.
It is going to mark a primary WTA 1000 quarter-final for twenty fifth seed Trevisan after she beat Latvia’s former French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko 6-3 6-3.
Elsewhere, American world quantity three Jessica Pegula defeated Poland’s Magda Linette 6-1 7-5 to arrange a quarter-final conflict with Russian Anastasia Potapova.
In the meantime, Stefanos Tsitsipas progressed to the final 16 of the boys’s singles with a 6-3 4-6 6-4 victory over Chilean qualifier Cristian Garin in what was his first look on courtroom in Miami.
The Greek obtained a first-round bye earlier than second-round opponent Richard Gasquet withdrew by way of harm.
Second seed Tsitsipas will face Karen Khachanov subsequent, after the Russian breezed previous Czech Jiri Lehecka 6-2 6-4.
Argentina’s Francisco Cerundolo – a Miami semi-finalist in 2022 – surprised Canada’s world quantity six Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-2 7-5.
