Kazakh-Chinese duo strolls into BMW Malaysian Open quarterfinal
15:52, 2 March 2016
ASTANA. KAZINFORM - Zarina Diyas of Kazakhstan and Yi-Fan Xu of China have reached the quarterfinals of the BMW Malaysia Open 2016 in Kuala Lumpur today, Sports.kz reports.
The Kazakh-Chinese tandem beat the second-seeded Croatian Darija Jurak and American Nicole Melichar in straight sets 7-5, 6-1.
In the quarterfinal-match Diyas and Xu are to play against Nao Hibino from Japan and Ling Zhang from Hong Kong.
The prize fund of the tournament totals $226,750.