Earlier, Australian Open champion and world quantity 5 Madison Keys was knocked out after a shock 6-4 6-2 defeat to Filipina wildcard Alexandra Eala.
The 19-year-old, who received the US Open ladies singles title in 2022, is the primary girl from the Philippines to beat a top-10 opponent for the reason that skilled Open period started in 1975.
The world quantity 140 has now knocked out two Grand Slam champions in Florida, having overwhelmed 2017 French Open winner Jelena Ostapenko within the second spherical.
“Rising up it was powerful. You did not have anybody from the place you are from to pave the way in which,” mentioned Eala, who has been based mostly to the Rafael Nadal academy in Mallorca since she was 13.
“After all you had many individuals to look as much as around the globe, however I feel – I hope this takes Filipino tennis to the following step.”
Eala will face Paula Badosa within the final 16 after the Spaniard beat Denmark’s Clara Tauson 6-3 7-6 (7-3).
Former champion and second seed Iga Swiatek can be by way of after a 7-6 (7-2) 6-1 win over Belgian twenty seventh seed Elise Mertens.
The Polish world quantity two is the primary participant to succeed in the final 16 in 25 successive WTA 1000 occasions, a run stretching again to Cincinnati 2021.
Swiatek’s subsequent opponent will likely be Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina, who beat Czech fifteenth seed Karolina Muchova 6-2 3-6 6-2.
