Abu dhabi: Filipino Alexandra Eala and Indonesian Janice Tjen defeated Canadian Leylah Fernandez and French Kristina Mladenovic, 7-5, 0-6, 10-6, Tuesday night (Wednesday morning in PH) to reach the Abu Dhabi Open doubles quarterfinals at Zayed Sports City International Tennis Centre in the United Arab Emirates.
According to Philippines News Agency, Eala and Tjen will next face the winners of the match between second seeds Cristina Bucsa of Spain and Shuai Zhang of China and the Ukrainian twins Lyudmyla and Nadiia Kichenok.
In other doubles results, Sofia Kenin and Desirae Krawczyk eliminated top seeds Asia Muhammad of the United States and Erin Routliffe of New Zealand, 6-1, 2-6, 12-10. They will play Barbora Krejcikova of the Czech Republic and Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia, who defeated Yifan Xu of China and Liudmila Samsonova, 6-2, 7-5.
Third seeds Ellen Perez of Australia and Demi Schuurs of the Netherlands outplayed Shuko Aoyama of Japan and Vera Zvonareva, 7-6 (4), 6-4. They will compete against Ekaterina Alexandrova of Russia and Maya Joint of Australia, who won 6-2, 6-1 over Teodora Kostovic of Serbia and Dayana Yastremska of Ukraine.
Fourth seeds Tereza Mihalikova of Slovakia and Olivia Nicholls of Great Britain triumphed over Darija Jurak Schreiber of Croatia and Katarzyna Piter of Poland, 7-5, 6-3. They are set to meet Andreja Klepac of Slovenia and Irina Khromacheva, who defeated Chan Hao-ching of Chinese Taipei and Clara Tauson of Denmark, 7-5, 6-3.
Meanwhile, the world No. 45 Eala will face Aliaksandra Sasnovich of Belarus in the singles round-of-16 on Wednesday.
No. 5 seed Liudmila Samsonova of Russia ousted Tjen, 6-2, 6-2. Samsonova will compete against Hailey Baptiste of the US, who overcame compatriot and No. 4 seed Emma Navarro, 7-6 (6), 0-6, 6-3.
McCartney Kessler of the US defeated No. 6 seed Fernandez, 6-3, 6-2, advancing to the quarterfinals against No. 3 seed Tauson, who secured a 6-3, 6-1 victory over Simona Waltert of Switzerland.
Other second round matches will feature defending champion and No. 1 seed Belinda Bencic of Switzerland against Sonay Kartal of Great Britain; No. 2 seed Alexandrova against Dayana Yastremska of Ukraine; and No. 7 seed Ostapenko against Sara Bejlek of Czech Republic.
