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There were some upsets in the lower seeds. So today’s third-round matches are bereft of seed-to-seed matchups.
But most of the top guns remained, with Coco Gauff facing a challenge against the feisty Marta Kostyuk that ended up not being that, so much, as Kostyuk clearly was still feeling the effects both physical and mental from her narrow escape the previous day.
For Canadian Leylah Fernandez, who squeaked out another win on Wednesday, it was also a big challenge against Chinese heroine Zheng Qinwen. She will … not have the crowd. She did have two wins under her belt this week. But she faded in the end.
(Wuhan is 12 hours ahead of EDT)
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Location: Wuhan, China
Category: WTA 1000
Surface: Hard Court
Dates: Oct. 7 – 13, 2024
Prize money: $8,955,610
Draws: S96 – D32
Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024
Final results
Singles, third round
Wang Xinyu (CHN) def [2] Jessica Pegula (USA) 63 75
Magda Linette (POL) def [8] Daria Kasatkina (RUS) 62 63
Magdalena Frech (POL) def. [9] Beatriz Haddad Maia (BRA) 63 62
[1] Aryna Sabalenka (BLR) def Yulia Putintseva (KAZ) 16 64 60
[3] Jasmine Paolini (ITA) def [Q] Erika Andreeva (RUS) 63 62
[4] Coco Gauff (USA) def [13] Marta Kostyuk (UKR) 64 61
Ekaterina Alexandrova (RUS) def [Q] Hailey Baptiste (USA) 61 61
Doubles, second round
Ekaterina Alexandrova (RUS) / Katerina Siniakova (CZE) def [4] Jasmine Paolini / Sara Errani (ITA) 46 64 [10-8]
[6] Hao-Ching Chan (CHN) / Veronika Kudermetova (RUS) def. Marie Bouzkova / Barbora Krejcikova (CZE) 26 64 [10-6]
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