BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Chanelle Scheepers of South Africa reached her third quarterfinals of the year when she defeated Petra Martic of Croatia 7-5, 6-4 at the Hungarian Grand Prix on Thursday.
“I’m happy to have made the transition to clay from grass fairly smoothly,” said Scheepers, the sixth seed. “Petra is such a good player, so I knew I had to take my chances when I got them.”
Scheepers’ next opponent will be Danka Kovinic of Montenegro, who beat Valeria Solovyeva of Russia 6-1, 3-6, 6-1.
Shahar Peer of Israel knocked out eighth-seeded Anna Tatishvili of Georgia 6-1, 6-1, leaving just three seeded players in the last eight.