Santa Ponça (Spain) (AFP)
France's Caroline Garcia, the 23rd player in the world, qualified Thursday for the quarterfinals of the Mallorca grass tournament, unlike her compatriot Alizé Cornet (56), eliminated earlier in the day.
The French N.1 in the WTA standings had to work to finally oust in three sets - 6-2, 6-7 (1/7), 6-3 - the Spanish Paula Badosa, 132nd, and her to offer a duel with Germany's Angelique Kerber (6th), the last Wimbledon laureate and the winner of the Russian Maria Sharapova on Thursday.
The other representative of the Hexagon in Majorca, Alizé Cornet, she gave in two sets (2-6, 4-6) against the American Amanda Anisimova, 27th and recent semi-finalist of Roland-Garros.
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