Coco Gauff defeats Elise Mertens in straight sets on her 20th birthday at Indian Wells, while Aryna Sabalenka is surprisingly knocked out by Emma Navarro.
Coco Gauff breezed past Elise Mertens in straight sets to win on her 20th birthday at Indian Wells while Aryna Sabalenka was surprisingly knocked out. Gauff dropped just two games as she raced to a 6-0 6-2 win over Mertens as she made the last eight for a second consecutive year. She was on course to meet Sabalenka in the semi-finals in a repeat of the Australian Open final, but the world No 2 was stunned by Emma Navarro .
Sabalenka was far from her best as Navarro won 6-3 3-6 6-2 to reach the quarter-finals of a WTA 1000 event for the first time in her career. The opening six games of the match were tight with neither player getting a break point chance until Navarro made the breakthrough to go 5-3 up after a string of errors from Sabalenka. Navarro held serve but the momentum shifted when Sabalenka broke early in the second and found her rhythm to send the match into a decider
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