MANILA – Filipino Alexandra Eala and American Venus Williams marched to the doubles quarterfinals after beating American Alexandra Osborne and Australian Catherine Harrison in the first round, 6-3, 6-4, Wednesday night at the Bad Homburg Open in Germany.
Eala and Williams, teaming up for the first time, will next face the second-seeded pair of Slovakian Tereza Mihalikova and British Olivia Nicholls.
Mihalikova and Nicholls, both ranked No. 29 in the doubles, defeated Chinese duo Xinyu Jiang and Yifan Xu, 6-2, 6-3.
Meanwhile, Slovenian pair Andreja Klepac and Nika Radisic ousted the top-ranked pair of American Nicole Melichar-Martinez and New Zealander Erin Routliffe, 6-4, 4-6, 10-2.
Klepac and Radisic will be up against Indonesian Aldila Sutjiadi and Vera Zvonareva, who pulled off a 6-4, 4-2, 10-8 victory over Belgians Magali Kempen and Alexandra Panova.
German Tamara Korpatsch and British Emily Webley-Smith also ousted the No. 4 pair of Ukrainian Lyudmila Kichenok and American Desirae Krawczyk, 3-6, 7-5, 10-8, to set up a quarterfinal duel with Chinese tandem Su-Wei Hsieh and Xinyu Wang, 6-4, 7-5 winners over Norwegian Ulrikke Eikeri and American Quinn Gleason.
Third seeds Ellen Perez of Australia and Demi Schuurs of the Netherlands survived Hao-Ching Chan of Chinese Taipei and Carla Tauson of Denmark, 6-7 (2), 6-3, 10-6 to advance in the quarterfinals where they will meet Chinese pair Qianhui Tang and Shuai Zhang, who prevailed over Germans Tessa Johanna Brockman and Ella Seidel, 6-4, 6-1.
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