Suarez beats Sharapova at US Open
Tuesday - September 4, 2018 1:08 pm ,
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Suarez beats Sharapova at US Open
New York Sep 4 (IANS) Spain s Carla Suarez Navarro defeated Russian star Maria Sharapova 6-4 6-3 to earn her place in the quarter-finals of the US Open tennis tournament.
Suarez who turned 30 on Monday is playing her eleventh US Open and made it to the quarter-finals for the second time after her first quarter-final in 2013 reports EFE news agency.
Suarez s win over Sharapova who won the 2006 US Open broke the Russian player s winning streak of 22-0 on the centre court of the Arthur Ashe Stadium in Flushing Meadows and was the second loss to the Spaniard in six games on the circuit (4-2).
Suarez s next opponent will be the fourteenth favourite American Madison Keys who easily beat Slovakia s Dominika Cibulkova 6-1 6-3 to reach the quarter-finals of the US Open for the second consecutive year.
--IANS ajb/sed
Suarez who turned 30 on Monday is playing her eleventh US Open and made it to the quarter-finals for the second time after her first quarter-final in 2013 reports EFE news agency.
Suarez s win over Sharapova who won the 2006 US Open broke the Russian player s winning streak of 22-0 on the centre court of the Arthur Ashe Stadium in Flushing Meadows and was the second loss to the Spaniard in six games on the circuit (4-2).
Suarez s next opponent will be the fourteenth favourite American Madison Keys who easily beat Slovakia s Dominika Cibulkova 6-1 6-3 to reach the quarter-finals of the US Open for the second consecutive year.
--IANS ajb/sed
