GUADALAJARA, Mexico — Teenager Marina Stakusic fought off 4 match factors to say the most important win in her profession after defeating top-seeded Jelena Ostapenko 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (0) on Thursday to advance to the Guadalajara Open quarterfinals.
The 19-year-old Canadian trailed 4-0 within the third set and fought off the 4 match factors when she was down 5-3.
“I am blissful to tug by, it was a curler coaster, I bought an opportunity to shut it within the second and I did not, however I am proud of the win and excited with the quarters,” mentioned Stakusic, who bought into the primary draw on a wild card.
Stakusic defeated Olympic semifinalist Anna Karolina Schmiedlova 6-2, 6-4 within the opening spherical after which Ostapenko for her first-career win over a top-20 participant. Final 12 months she misplaced to Barbora Krejcikova within the Billie Jean King Cup Finals.
The Canadian, ranked one hundred and fifty fifth, is the primary wild-card entry to succeed in the quarterfinals in Guadalajara. Stakusic will subsequent play fifth-seeded Magdalena Frech, who beat Ashley Krueger 3-6, 6-3, 6-1 within the final match of the night time.
Ostapenko, who’s ranked twelfth and received the 2017 French Open, had 17 double faults within the match.
Earlier, fourth-seeded Caroline Garcia held off Ena Shibahara 7-6 (3), 7-6 (5) and likewise superior to the quarterfinals, the place she is going to meet Marie Bouzkova, who within the first match of the day breezed previous qualifier Lucrezia Stefanini 6-2, 6-1.
The 30-year-old Garcia can be enjoying in her first quarterfinal since she superior to the Rouen semifinals final April.
“We performed very completely different types, she is a participant that doesn’t go well with me, I must play strong, and I’ll see what I can do in a different way to beat her,” mentioned Garcia, who’s 0-4 towards Bouzkova.
The event is being performed on onerous courts on the Complejo Panamericano de Tenis in Guadalajara.