Australia’s Olivia Gadecki has continued her sturdy run of type on the WTA 500 occasion in Mexico with a straight-sets upset of world quantity 11 Danielle Collins.
The 22-year-old qualifier dismissed the second-seeded American 6-3 6-3 on the Guadalajara Open and now has a 2-1 profession document towards top-20 gamers.
Her earlier win over an opponent of that standing got here towards then-world quantity 4 Sofia Kenin again in 2021.
“I am actually pleased with myself for giving myself the prospect to play one other match and play such superb gamers and take a look at my talents,” Gadecki mentioned on court docket.
“I actually sit up for persevering with.”
Gadecki, ranked 152 on the planet, transformed 4 of her 9 break factors and received 68 per cent of second-serve return factors towards Collins throughout her 84-minute victory.
The 30-year-old Collins, who is about to retire on the finish of the season, made 35 unforced errors, together with eight double faults, and has now misplaced three straight matches since her harm retirement in her Paris Olympics quarter-final towards world primary Iga Świątek.
Gadecki, who beat America’s Sloane Stephens within the opening spherical, advances to the quarterfinals, the place she is going to meet Italy’s world quantity 99, Martina Trevisan.
It continues a great run for Gadecki this yr, after she secured doubles titles in Austin and Charleston with Brit Olivia Nicholls.
She is presently on a four-match successful streak, her equal second longest of the season and longest at WTA degree.
The Gold Coast participant defeated Hungarian Timea Babos and Maya Joint in qualifying with out dropping a set, earlier than beating former world quantity three Stephens within the first spherical.
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