Caroline Dolehide (USA) wrote her history qualifying for the quarter-finals of the WTA 1000 Guadalajara Open Akron with a prize pool of 2,788,468 USD after defeating the 8th-seeded Ekaterina Alexandrova (Russia) by 2-0 (6:1, 6:2) in 61 minutes of play.
The American tennis player reorded two breaks in the first set and two breaks in the second set, giving only one breakpoint to her opponent, but saved it. Caroline Dolehide scored 3 aces and had 65% success in the first serve, which made the difference and gave her the victory.
This is the biggest achievement so far for the 25-years-old Caroline Dolehide, who so far has maximum reached the third round of WTA 1000 Indian Wells Open in 2018 and WTA 500 Credit One Charleston Open.
The American tennis player Sofia Kenin also recorded a surprise, eliminating the 6th-seeded Jelena Ostapenko (Latvia) after 2-0 (6:4, 7:5), as well as Emiliana Arango (Colombia), who defeated Taylor Townsend (USA) by 2-1 (7:5, 1:6, 6:4) and will also play in the quarter-finals.
The 3rd-seeded Caroline Garcia (France) defeated Hailey Baptiste (USA) by 2-0 (7:5, 6:4).
