Caroline Garcia through to Monterrey Open quarter-finals
Friday 6 March 2015 08:37, UK
Third seed Caroline Garcia advanced to the Monterrey Open quarter-finals with a straight-sets victory over Italy's Francesca Schiavone in Mexico on Thursday.
France's world No 29 Garcia won the first-set on a tie-break and subsequently did not drop another game as she wrapped up a 7-6 (7-2) 6-0 triumph against the veteran in 88 minutes.
Garcia will play compatriot Kristina Mladenovic for a place in the last four.
Seventh seed Daniela Hantuchova will not feature in the quarter-finals, however, after she slumped to a straight-sets defeat to Urszula Radwanska.
Slovakian world No 46 Hantuchova was thoroughly outclassed as her Polish opponent, ranked 95 places lower, needed just 75 minutes to secure a 6-2 6-4 win.
Radwanska will meet Timea Bacsinszky in the quarter-finals after the Swiss fourth seed ended Ukrainian Lesia Tsurenko's interest in the tournament.
Bacsinszky lost the first set 4-6 but regained her composure to win the next two by the same scoreline to wrap up a 4-6 6-4 6-4 victory in a match lasting more than two-and-a-half hours.
Fifth seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova set up a quarter-final showdown against second seed Sara Errani after overcoming Johanna Larsson 6-4 6-4.
