Nice Britain’s Sonay Kartal beat Japan’s Mai Hontama in straight units on the Jasmin Open in Tunisia to achieve the primary WTA quarter-final of her profession.
Kartal, who’s the British quantity 4, cruised out of the final 16 with a dominant 6-2 6-2 success.
The 22-year-old from Brighton is ranked 46 locations beneath Hontama at 151 on the earth.
She took a 3-0 lead in each units and closed every out regardless of her opponent pulling video games again.
Beating Hontama means she’s going to play both quantity third seed Diane Parri or world quantity 130 Yuliia Starodubtseva within the final eight on Thursday.
Kartal, who was Emma Raducanu’s major home rival as a junior, reached the third spherical at Wimbledon earlier this yr earlier than falling to second seed Coco Gauff.