ADELAIDE: Unseeded American Danielle Collins sent an out of sorts Ashleigh Barty crashing out of the Adelaide International in the second round on Wednesday.

Collins seized on some poor serving from the world number one to claim a convincing 6-3, 6-4 win in just 65 minutes.

It was Collins’ first win over Barty in three encounters and her first win against a current world number one.

Collins reached the quarter-finals, where she will play Poland’s reigning French Open champion Iga Swiatek.

Swiatek was untroubled against Australian qualifier Maddison Inglis, winning 6-1, 6-3.

Second seed Belinda Bencic cruised into the quarter-finals with a 6-1, 6-3 win over Japan’s Misaki Doi.

Bencic takes on Australian surprise packet Storm Sanders in the last eight. The left-handed Sanders entered the tournament as the world number 292 but outlasted seventh seed Yulia Putintseva in three sets 6-4, 5-7, 6-1.

American teenager Coco Gauff caused an upset when she came from a set down to beat sixth seed Petra Martic of Croatia 5-7, 6-3, 6-4. She will next face Shelby Rogers on Thursday in the quarter-finals.

In another upset, Swiss player Jil Teichmann beat China’s eighth seeded Wang Qiang 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 to set up a quarter-final against Latvia’s Anastasija Sevastova, who downed American lucky loser Christina McHale 6-4, 6-1.

Published in Dawn, February 25th, 2021