After Tuesday's near-total rainout, Wednesday was a busy day for second-round matches at the Internationaux de Strasbourg. Here's a breakdown of the day's early matches as the quarterfinal lineup at the WTA 500 clay-court event took shape:
Haddad Maia advances: No.2 seed Beatriz Haddad Maia of Brazil moved into the quarterfinals with a 6-4, 7-6(1) victory over Emma Navarro. In the early-round clash between Top 25 players, the Brazilian took the win in 2 hours and 16 minutes.
Haddad Maia has yet to make a WTA singles final on clay, but she did post a historic result for Brazil at Roland Garros last year, where she reached her first Grand Slam semifinal.
In the quarterfinals, Haddad Maia will face No.5 seed Liudmila Samsonova, in their first meeting. Samsonova was the only player to complete a match on rainy Tuesday.
Keys continues clay surge: No.4 seed Madison Keys dismissed Wang Xinyu 7-5, 6-0 to clinch a spot in the quarterfinals. Keys was broken in the first game of the match but never lost serve after that, prevailing in 80 minutes.
After missing the first two months of the season due to shoulder rehab, Keys has caught fire on the red clay. She is into her third straight quarterfinal on the dirt, following a Madrid semifinal showing and a run to the Rome quarters.
Keys is playing in Strasbourg for the first time in nearly a decade, but the American has had success here before, previously making the semifinals in 2014 and the quarterfinals in 2015.
In the quarterfinals, Keys will meet Poland's Magda Linette, who upset No.6 seed Ekaterina Alexandrova 6-7(5), 6-3, 6-3 in just under three hours of play. Keys has a 3-1 head-to-head lead over Linette.
Vondrousova fends off upset bid: Marketa Vondrousova, the No.1 seed and reigning Wimbledon champion, held off qualifier Magdalena Frech 5-7, 6-1, 6-0 on Wednesday.
It took Vondrousova of the Czech Republic 2 hours and 13 minutes to notch the win, preventing Poland's Frech from getting her first career Top 10 win. World No.54 Frech is now 0-14 in her career against Top 10 opposition.
After splitting the first two sets, Vondrousova smashed a winning forehand return to break Frech in the first game of the third set. Vondrousova slammed a forehand winner down the line to garner a double-break for 3-0, and the Czech cruised home from there.
Vondrousova will meet Ukraine's Anhelina Kalinina in the quarterfinals, after Kalinina got past French wild card Fiona Ferro 6-3, 3-6, 6-0. Kalinina leads Vondrousova in their head-to-head 2-1.
Top seed Marketa Vondrousova dropped the first set but recovered to squash qualifier Magdalena Frech 5-7, 6-1, 6-0 at the Internationaux de Strasbourg in France on Wednesday.
Frech, from Poland, was striving for her first win ever over a Top-10 player, but the Czech prevailed in two hours, 13 minutes. Frech fell to 0-14 against competition in the Top 10.
Vondrousova advanced to the quarterfinals, where she will face Anhelina Kalinina, a winner in three sets over wild card Fiona Ferro of France.
Also moving to the quarters were No. 2 seed Beatriz Haddad Maia of Brazil, third-seeded Danielle Collins and No. 4 seed Madison Keys, all winners in straight sets.
A pair of seeded players fell in their matches Wednesday. No. 6 Ekaterina Alexandrova of Russia fell to Poland's Magda Linette in three sets, and No. 7 Elina Svitolina of Ukraine, the defending champion, was ousted in three sets by France's Clara Burel.
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Unseeded Peyton Stearns upset the sixth-seeded Xiyu Wang of China 6-3, 6-1 in the second round in Rabat, Morocco.
In the quarterfinals, Stearns will meet the No. 4 seed, Lucia Bronzetti, who defeated fellow Italian Martina Trevisan 6-2, 6-3.
Other winners were Mayar Sherif of Egypt, Viktoriya Tomova of Bulgaria and Laura Siegemund of Germany. Kamilla Rakhimova of Russia advanced in a walkover.
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