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Peng, Swiss teen set up last-8 clash
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CHINA’S Peng Shuai knocked out her third seeded player in a row and Swiss teenager Belinda Bencic beat a former world No. 1 in fourth-round wins on Sunday to set up an unlikely US Open quarterfinal in New York.
The unseeded Peng, 28, beat 14th-seeded Czech Lucie Safarova 6-3, 6-4, and 17-year-old Bencic ousted ninth-seeded Serb Jelena Jankovic 7-6 (6), 6-3 to reach the last eight in a grand-slam first for both players.
It promises to be a scintillating match-up of the world’s No. 1-ranked doubles player Peng and former top-ranked junior player Bencic, who won the girls’ titles at last year’s French Open and Wimbledon.
Peng had reached the fourth round of singles tournament at grand slams five times, while for Bencic, the victory continued her best slam showing and made her the youngest US Open quarterfinalist since Martina Hingis won the title in 1997.
That connection was all the more relevant as Hingis was in Bencic’s player’s box cheering her on as a regular practice partner of the Swiss teen, who is partly coached by Hingis’s mother, Melanie Molitor.
A Wimbledon semifinalist this year, Peng also eliminated fourth seed Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland in the second round and 28th-seeded Roberta Vinci of Italy in the third. She is the third Chinese player to reach a grand slam quarterfinal after Li Na and Zheng Jie.
Elsewhere, Russian fifth-seed Maria Sharapova, looking to add this year’s US Open title to her French Open win in June, was undone by 43 unforced errors and eight double faults as 10th seed Caroline Wozniacki won 6-4, 2-6, 6-2.
The Dane, a former world No. 1, will next face 13th-seeded Italian Sara Errani who ended the magical run of 32-year-old Croatian qualifier Mirjana Lucic-Baroni 6-3, 2-6, 6-0.
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