The Italian qualifier Camilla Rosatello gave up, and allowed the Russian Kamilla Rakhimova to reach the quarter-finals of the Rabat tournament late Wednesday afternoon, at the Union Sportive des Cheminots du Maroc in Rabat. The score was 4-0 when Rosatello, 294th WTA player in the world, was unable to continue the match.
Rakhimova, ranked 105th in the WTA, will face Italian Elisabetta Cocciaretto, seeded No. 7 in the quarter-finals of the Moroccan tournament.
The 22-year-old Russian tennis player took advantage of the abandonment of the American Taylor Townsend (2-0 ab.), during the previous round of the Moroccan Open.
The Italian player beat the Chinese Yue Yuan, seeded n°1 in three sets (7-6 [7]1-6, 6-4).
The other posters for the round of 16 in Rabat (WTA 250, Union Sportive des Cheminots du Maroc, clay, 267,082 USD, results displayed from most recent to oldest):
- Mayar Sherif – Maria Lourdes Carle: 6-3, 6-2
- Laura Siegemund – Camila Osorio: 6-4, 6-4
- Peyton Stearns – Xiyu Wang (N.6): 6-3, 6-1
- Viktoriya Tomova – Yafan Wang: 7-6 [4]6-0
- Lucia Bronzetti (N.4) – Martina Trevisan: 6-2, 6-3
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto – Zhuoxuan Bai: 6-4, 6-2
- Sara Sorribes Tormo (N.3) – Nadia Podoroska: 7-5, 3-6, 6-3
