Garbine, Paula, Belinda advance

TOKYO: Switzerland's Belinda Bencic, the No.9 seed, defeated No.8 Barbora Krejcikova of the Czech Republic 1-6, 6-2, 6-3 to reach the quarterfinals on womens's Tennis singles at Tokyo Olympis on Tuesday. It was only the second loss for Barbora in her past 24 matches.

Belinda's opponent in the quarterfinals will be No.13 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of ROC, who beat Spaniard Sara Sorribes Tormo 6-1, 6-3.

Camila Giorgi of Italy also pulled off an upset, as the defeated No.5 Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic, 6-4, 6-2 in 75 minutes.

Garbine Muguruza, the No.6 seed, defeated Alison van Uytvanck of Belgium 6-4, 6-1 to secure her fourth win in five tries against the Belgian.

Paula Badosa made it two Spaniards in the quarterfinals. She eliminated Argentina's Nadia Podoroska, 6-2, 6-3 in an hour and 24 minutes.

No.15 seed Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan completed the quarterfinal lineup as she beat Donna Vekic of Croatia, 7-6(3), 6-4. IANS

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