Heather Watson advanced to the quarter-finals of the Bell Challenge in Quebec with a hard-fought win over Sweden’s Sofia Arvidsson on Wednesday.
by bahamaderek on Sep.15, 2011, under Heather Watson, Rebecca Marino
Watson broke her opponent’s serve six times, but still needed four match points to end Arvidsson’s resistance and seal a 7-5 6-3 victory in a match lasting an hour and 35 minutes. The 19-year-old from Guernsey will play third seed Tamira Paszek in the last eight after the Austrian battled past Varvara Lepchenko in three sets. Paszek lost the opening set on a tie-break but hit back to win 6-7 (2/7) 6-3 7-6 (7/4).
Elsewhere on Wednesday, fourth seed Rebecca Marino got the better of fellow Canadian Aleksandra Wozniak 6-4 4-6 6-4, while Holland’s Michaella Krajicek beat France’s Julie Coin 7-5 4-6 6-1.
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