Second-seeded Emma Navarro of the United States rallied to beat Camila Osorio of Colombia 3-6, 7-5, 7-6 (2) early Thursday to reach the quarter-finals of the Monterrey Open. (More Tennis News)
The 23-year-old Navarro, the 202♈1 NCAA champi🀅on as a freshman at the University of Virginia, finally finished off Osorio at 12:35 am — 2 hours, 48 minutes after they began play.
Navarro set up a match against ninth-seeded Magdalena Frech of Poland in the WTA 500 event o🌳n Sonoma Club's hᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚard courts. Frech edged Lina Glushko 6-7 (2), 6-3, 6-1.
Navarro won in Hobart in January for her first WTA Tour title. She lost to Diana Shnaider in May in Paris in the Trophee Clarins final.
The 22-year-old Osorio won both of her WTA Tour titles on clay at home in Bogota,♎ the first in 2021 and 💮the second in April. She lost to Leylah Fernandez in the 2022 Monterrey final.
Earlier Wednesday, third-seeded Ek𓃲aterina Alexandrova beat local favorite Renata Zarazua 6-3, 6-4. Al🌱exandrova will face seventh-seeded Yue Yuan of China, a 6-4, 6-1 winner over Petra Martic.
Also, fifth-seeded Elina Svitolina beat Elina Avanesyan 6-4, 6-3 to set up a qu♊arterfinal against sixth-se♔eded Linda Noskova, a 6-4, 7-6 (11) winner over Xiyu Wang.
💙In the other quarter-final, Erika Andreeva will face Lulu Sun. The 17-year-old Andreeva beat top-seeded Danielle Collins a day earlier.
