That wasn’t Genie’s best performance, but it was good enough to reach the quarters in Acapulco.
The seed no.2 had many problems against world no. 147 Lara Arruabarrena especially in the first set when she was 4-5 and 1 break down. Then Genie regrouped to win 4 consecutive games and lead 7-5 1-0. Later in the set the Canadian broke the Spaniard twice to win 6-2. Match Stats
Next vs. Garcia
Genie will play for the first time world no. 89 Caroline Garcia for a place in the semifinal.
Here the other results
Ajla Tomljanovic (CRO) – [Q] Victoria Duval (USA) 6 – 3 6 – 0
[8] Shuai Zhang (CHN) – Aleksandra Wozniak (CAN) 6 – 1 6 – 4
Caroline Garcia (FRA) – [Q] Sharon Fichman (CAN) 6 – 2 7 – 5
Marina Erakovic (NZL) – [6] Bojana Jovanovski (SRB) 6 – 1 6 – 4
