WINSTON-SALEM: Second-seeded Kevin Anderson of South Africa locked up his sixth ATP quarter-final berth of the season on Wednesday with a 7-6 (7-2), 6-4 win over Jerzy Janowicz at the Winston-Salem Open.

Anderson next faces 18-year-old Croatian Borna Coric, who needed only 57 minutes to rout Argentinian Diego Schwartzman 6-2, 6-1.

In the other quarter-final in the bottom half of the draw, sixth seed Thomaz Bellucci of Brazil meets Malek Jaziri.

Bellucci defeated Czech Jiri Vesely 6-1, 6-7 (7-9), 6-4, while Tunisia’s Jaziri downed 15th-seeded Russian Teimuraz Gabashvili 7-5, 6-4.

The upsets continued in the top half of the draw as 13th-seeded American Steve Johnson dispatched third-seeded Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (7-4).

Johnson booked a meeting with Taiwan’s Lu Yen-Hsun, a 7-6 (7-1), 1-6, 7-5 winner over South Korea’s Chung Hyeon.

Pierre-Hugues Herbert kept the French flag flying, defeating Britain’s Aljaz Bedene 6-3, 6-0. Bedene stunned top-seeded Frenchman Gilles Simon in the second round.

Herbert will take on Spain’s Pablo Carreno-Busta, who defeated Italian Simone Bolelli 6-4, 4-6, 6-1.

KVITOVA, WOZNIACKI REACH NEW HAVEN QUARTER-FINALS

NEW HAVEN: Second-seeded defending champion Petra Kvitova rallied to beat Madison Keys 4-6, 6-1, 6-2 on Wednesday night in the third round of the Connecticut Open.

Kvitova will face seventh-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland in the quarterfinals. Radwanska beat France’s Alize Cornet 6-4, 6-2.

Four-time champion Caroline Wozniacki had to battle past Roberta Vinci, saving three match points in the third-set tiebreaker en route to a 6-4, 6-7 (3-7), 7-6 (9-7) win and next faces rising French star Caroline Garcia.

Fifth-seeded Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic topped Ukraine’s Olga Savchuk 6-4, 6-1 in 52 minutes to set up a match against lucky-loser Lesia Tsurenko of the Ukraine.

The remaining quarter-final, set on Tuesday, will pit fourth-seeded Czech Lucie Safarova against Slovak Dominika Cibulkova.

Published in Dawn, August 28th, 2015

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