It's Quarterfinals Day in Monterrey, too, and Alycia Parks is the last American woman standing.
Parks battled through to the last eight at the WTA 500 event after pulling off the upset of the tournament late last night, taking out top-seeded Emma Navarro in an all-American second-round clash, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. Her victory over the world No. 11 was her biggest win in two and a half years, and it put her into her first WTA quarterfinal since the first week of this year in Auckland. Today she'll face Slovakia's Rebecca Sramkova, who also scored an upset in the last round over No. 7 seed Leylah Fernandez.
Defending champion Linda Noskova is now 7-0 in her career in Monterrey, and 14-0 in sets.
The 20-year-old Czech won the title on debut last year, winning all five of her matches in straight sets, and she's off to a flying start to her campaign this year after a 7-6 (2), 7-6 (7) victory over Lulu Sun in the first round (which was actually a rematch of last year's final) and a 6-3, 6-2 triumph over Tatjana Maria in the second round. Today, she'll try to keep that streak going against the winner of Wednesday night's late match between Ekaterina Alexandrova and Ajla Tomljanovic.
👉 Stream WTA Monterrey here.
Over in Cleveland, it's an absolutely packed order of play after a rainy Wednesday.
There are four second-round matches on the schedule—three to finish from Wednesday, and one that never even took the court—and then all four quarterfinals will be played as well. Only one quarterfinal match has already been set and it might just be the most exciting one, as No. 1 seed Liudmila Samsonova takes on former world No. 21 Sorana Cirstea, who hasn't dropped a set in four matches this week—two in qualifying and two more in the main draw. The Romanian will be going for her fourth Top 20 win of the year against the current world No. 19.
👉 Stream WTA Cleveland here.