Carla Suarez in Strasbourg tennis quarters

Paris May 23 (IANS) Spanish tennis player Carla Suarez seeded No. 4 on Tuesday defeated American Christina McHale 6-4 6-1 and is through to the Strasbourg quarter-finals here.

The 28-year-old Spaniard needed just 87 minutes to overpower McHale world No. 60 in the round of 16 in the clay court tournament reports Efe.

This will be third quarter-final for Suarez former world No. 6 this season after Stuttgart where she lost to French Kristina Mladenovic and her defeat by German Angelique Kerber in the Monterrey semi-final after her win against France s Alize Cornet in the previous round.

Suarez world No. 22 is yet to lose a set in this tournament and is set to play against the winner of the tie between American Madison Brengle and Australian Samantha Stosur.

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