Austis: Third-seeded Danielle Collins fought to defeat Katie Volynets 4-6, 7-6 (3), 6-0 on Thursday, advancing to the quarterfinals of the ATX Open in Austin.
Collins, the runner-up at the 2022 Australian Open, had 39 winners and went 6-for-6 on break points in defeating Volynets. Volynets led 5-4 in the second set and served for the match, but Collins stopped her, won the tiebreaker, and then dominated the final set.
Collins will play sixth-seeded Wang Xiyu of China on Friday. Wang easily defeated Lativa’s Darja Semenistaja 6-1, 6-2.
Both American players who competed Thursday night lost their second-round matches. Anastasija Sevastova of Latvia defeated second-seeded Sloane Stephens 6-3, 6-2, while Anna Karolina Schmiedlova of Slovakia defeated Sachia Vickery 5-7, 7-6 (5), 7-5.
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Anna Blinkova of Russia advanced to the quarterfinals by saving five of eight break points against Ukraine’s Dayana Yastremska, who was seeded fifth.
Yastremska led 5-2 in the first set, but Blinkova rallied to force a tiebreaker. Blinkova claimed the final two points of the set and cruised through the second for the win.
Donna Vekic of Croatia also advanced, defeating Canada’s Marina Stakusic 6-4, 3-6, 6-3. Stakusic, 19, had a total of six aces.
Third-seeded Emma Navarro of the United States defeated Czech Republic’s Katerina Siniakova 6-3, 3-6, 6-1, and Russia’s Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova defeated China’s Xinyu Wang 4-6, 7-6(5), 6-2.
Pavlyuchenkova needed four set points to win the second set, and she clinched the victory with her fourth match point.
