Lausanne (AFP)
France's Alizé Cornet has quietly qualified for the quarter-finals of the WTA Lausanne tournament, which replaces the one of Gstaad, located 70 km away, Wednesday, leaving only two games to the Italian Jasmine Paolini 6-1, 6-1.
Alizé Cornet, 48th player in the world and 29 years old, is considered the title holder since she won at Gstaad in 2018. Thanks to this success, the French has aligned her 7th consecutive victorious match without having given up any set .
Against Jasmine Paolini (N.154, 23 years old), the result of qualifying but who played the last Roland-Garros, the French, very strong in the baseline, only needed 54 minutes to complete a match in one way, which has given rise to only one equality ...
Semi-finalist in Hobart, Australia, and quarter-finalist in Eastbourg, on the English turf, Cornet will face for a place in the last square the Russian Natalia Vikhlyantseva (100th in the world at 22), who took the best on the Australian Daria Gavrilova (N.91) 6-3, 6-2.
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