Estonian tennis player Ingrid Neel and Mexican partner reach Tokyo doubles quarterfinals
Estonian-American tennis player Ingrid Neel and Mexico's Giuliana Olmos won their first-round women's doubles match at the WTA tournament in Tokyo. They next face Slovakia's Tereza Mihalikova and Britain's Olivia Nicholls.
In tennis, at the WTA 500 tournament in Tokyo, Estonian-American player Ingrid Neel and her Mexican partner Giuliana Olmos won their opening women's doubles match and advanced to the quarterfinals. WTA 500 is one of the upper tiers of events on the women's professional tour.
Neel and Olmos defeated Japan's Shuko Aoyama and Taiwan's En Shuo Liang 4:6, 6:4, 10:8. In the deciding set, played to 10 points, they recovered from 1:5 down and, from 3:6, won four points in a row. They also held their nerve at the key moments.
Quarterfinal opponents
In the quarterfinals, Neel and Olmos meet Tereza Mihalikova of Slovakia and Olivia Nicholls of Great Britain. That pair eliminated the third-seeded duo, Erin Routliffe of New Zealand and Aldila Sutjiadi of Indonesia, 6:2, 6:3.
Singles event
Tokyo is also hosting a WTA 500 singles tournament. The top seed is world number one Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan, who recently won a tournament of the same level in China. She had a first-round bye and next plays her compatriot Yulia Putintseva.
Two of the four top seeds withdrew at the last moment: Poland's Maja Chwalinska and Switzerland's Belinda Bencic are not taking part. Diana Shnaider, Elise Mertens and home crowd favorite Naomi Osaka remain in the Tokyo field.
