Britain’s Emma Redukanu is in straight sets through a quarter -finals of the women’s singles at the Washington Open by defeating four -time Grand Slam winner Naomi Osaka.
After harassing the first Ukrainian seventh seed Marta Costux in round one, 22-year-old performed a major demonstration to cross former world number one Osaka 6-4 6-2.
The 2021 US Open Women’s Singles Champion will face Wildcard Maria Sakkari in the last eight, when the Greek player excluded the American second seed Emma Navarro.
Redukanu, who will replace the Katie Baulter as a British number one, when the WTA ranking is updated on Monday, is also through the semi -finals of the women’s couple.
He and fellow Elena Rybikina overtook Giuliana Olmos and Aldila Sutjiadi 7-6 (8-6) 6-4, so that there was a final four meeting with other seeds Shooi Zhang and Taylor Townsend.
However, in men’s singles, Britain Cameron Nori and Dan Evans were abolished in the final 16.
The British number two Nori lost 7-6 (7-3) 6-3 to 14th seeded Brandon Nakashima.
After the Tie-Break fixed a tight first set, American Nakashima broke the service of Nori in the second to reach the quarter-finals twice.
Evans, who won the tournament in 2023, fought below 5-3 and saved a match point to force a tie-break in another set against Corentin Mutet, but the French strongly strengthened sets, won 6–2 7-6 (7-4).
