Belarusian tennis player Victoria Azarenka reached the quarterfinals of the tournament in Charleston. In the third round match, she beat US representative Taylor Townsend. The meeting ended with the score 6:7, 6:3, 6:4.
The duration of the meeting was 2 hours 46 minutes. During this time, Azarenka made four straight serves, made three double faults and converted 4 out of 19 break points. Townsend had 12 aces, three double faults and two converted break points out of eight.
The tournament in Charleston runs from April 1 to 7. The total prize fund in the women’s singles is $922 thousand. The current winner of the tournament is Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur, who beat Switzerland’s Belinda Bencic in the final match last year.