Stakusic upsets top-seed Ostapenko in Guadalajara

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Stakusic upsets top-seed Ostapenko in Guadalajara

Teenager Marina Stakusic fought off four match points to claim the biggest win of her career in defeating top-seeded Jelena Ostapenko 6-3 5-7 7-6 (0) to advance to the Guadalajara Open quarter-finals.

The 19-year-old ********* wild card trailed 4-0 in the third set and fought off the four match points when down 5-3.

“I’m happy to pull through, it was a rollercoaster, I got a chance to close it in the second and I didn’t, but I’m happy with the win and excited with the quarters,” said Stakusic.

Stakusic beat Olympic semi-finalist Anna Karolina Schmiedlova 6-2 6-4 in the opening round and then Ostapenko for her first career win over a top-20 player. Last year she lost to Barbora Krejcikova in the Billie Jean King Cup Finals.

The *********, ranked 155th, is the first wild-card entry to reach the quarterfinals in Guadalajara. Stakusic will next play fifth-seeded Magdalena Frech, who beat Ashley Krueger 3-6 6-3 6-1 in the last match of the night.

Ostapenko, who is ranked 12th and won the 2017 French Open, had 17 double faults in the match.

Earlier, fourth-seeded Caroline Garcia held off Ena Shibajara 7-6 (3) 7-6 (5) to also progress to the quarter-finals, where she will meet Marie Bouzkova, who in the first match of the day breezed past qualifier Lucrezia Stefanini 6-2 6-1.

The 30-year-old Garcia will be playing in her first quarter-final since she made the semis at Rouen in April.

“We played very different styles, she is a player that does not suit me, I need to play solid, and I will see what I can do differently to beat her,” said Garcia, who is 0-4 against Bouzkova.

The tournament is being played on hard courts at the Complejo Panamericano de Tenis, in Guadalajara.

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