Victoria Mboko advances to Miami Open quarterfinals, defeating doubles accomplice Mirra Andreeva

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Canada's Victoria Mboko earned a 7-6 (4), 4-6, 6-0 fourth-round win over Russia's Mirra Andreeva on Monday on the Miami Open tennis match.

Mboko, the match's tenth seed, had six aces to seven double faults and transformed on simply considered one of her six break-point possibilities.

Nonetheless, the 19-year-old received 77.8 per cent of first-serve factors within the two-hour, 17-minute girls's singles match.

Mboko, from Burlington, Ont., will face Karolina Muchová of Czechia within the quarterfinals Tuesday.

The 18-year-old Andreeva, the eighth seed, had six aces to 2 double faults and broke as soon as in 4 possibilities. She received 66.7 per cent of first-serve factors.

Mboko and Andreeva beat Australia's Ellen Perez and Demi Schuurs of the Netherlands 7-6 (7), 6-3 on Sunday within the Spherical of 32 within the girls's doubles match. They return to the courtroom for a Spherical of 16 match on Tuesday towards Australia's Storm Hunter and Jessica Pegula of the US.

In males's singles motion, Montreal's Félix Auger-Aliassime was ousted within the third spherical by France's Terence Atmane 6-3, 1-6, 6-3.

The seventh-seeded Auger-Aliassime had 11 aces to 4 double faults and had 26 winners to Atmane's 12. Nonetheless, the Frenchman received three straight video games to interrupt a 2-2 tie within the remaining set earlier than sealing the deal two video games later.

Cerundolo beats Medvedev in gorgeous upset Francisco Cerundolo's love affair with the Miami Open exhibits no indicators of cooling after the Argentine world No. 19 shocked Russian Daniil Medvedev 6-0 4-6 7-5 to succeed in the fourth spherical.

The 27-year-old secured his first top-10 victory of the season towards the previous world No. 1, who arrived in Florida in peak kind after thwarting Carlos Alcaraz's 16-0 begin to the season, and ending as runner-up at Indian Wells.

"I felt good in my first-round match right here, and now I really feel method higher," stated Cerundolo. "I am recovering that confidence. The extent was there, I used to be simply looking for it. However now, [I am in] the Spherical of 16, so hopefully I can stick with it."

The match started with Cerundolo racing by way of the opening set, however Medvedev rallied from 1-3 down within the second set to pressure a decider.

The pair traded high-quality rallies amid the Florida warmth, with Cerundolo's forehand aggression disrupting Medvedev, whereas he produced an instinctive winner to finish the two-hour 17-minute encounter.

"I did not know what to count on … It was an ideal match, tremendous robust," Cerundolo added. "It was my first match towards Daniil. He is in all probability one of many solely guys on Tour who I've by no means performed. He has had an ideal 12 months to this point, so I did not count on to be up 6-0 within the first set and a break up within the second."

The match additionally had an uncommon incident within the third set when umpire Mohamed Lahyani virtually grew to become entangled with the Spidercam, the aerial digicam that flies over the courtroom throughout matches.

The digicam's cables bought caught on the umpire's chair, inflicting the construction to maneuver and forcing Lahyani to step down onto the courtroom shortly to keep away from falling. The Swedish umpire subsequently requested that the manufacturing workforce maintain the Spidercam from passing so near his chair or the gamers.

Cerundolo has lengthy thrived in Miami, highlighted by his semifinal run on his debut in 2022 earlier than including quarter-final showings in 2023 and 2025. He'll subsequent face Frenchman Ugo Humbert.

The defeat ends Medvedev's pursuit of a Tour-leading twentieth win of the season, with the 30-year-old exiting Miami with a 19-5 document after already claiming titles in Brisbane and Dubai.