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However, her chances of victory appeared slim when the No 3 seed from Italy served for the match at 5-4 in the second set.

Australia’s Sam Stosur has swept into the quarter-finals of the WTA event at Bad Gastein in Austria with a 6-1, 6-0 win over Klara Koukalova of the Czech Republic.

The 21-year-old German reached a career-high 73rd on this week’s WTA rankings.

The Slovakian was broken twice in the opening set but won nine straight games from 3-2 in the second set.

Vandeweghe is one of three Americans left in the Wimbledon quarterfinals. CoCo broke from her father, Robert Kennis Mullarkey, when her parents moved to the West Coast, only reluctantly visiting him back on Long Island when forced by court visitation rulings. This will be her...