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WTA Charleston Open Schedule: Danielle Collins, Jessica Pegula and Emma Navarro Take Center-Stage in Action-Packed Day for Fans

Published 04/04/2024, 11:48 AM EDT

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Get ready, tennis fans, for another exciting day at the WTA Charleston Open. With many top-ranked players still in contention, today’s schedule is packed with important matchups that promise to deliver a hefty dose of entertainment and shape the players’ journey deeper into the tour. As fans eagerly await the action on a sunny fourth day, here’s a glimpse of what’s in store for them today.

The 3rd day of the tournament is packed with nerve-wracking match-ups which include 4 Round 3 matchups, another 8 Round 4 matchups, and 4 doubles QF matchups. WTA stars such as Danielle Collins, Jessica Pegula, Emma NavarroOns Jabeur, Victoria Azarenka, and Maria Sakkari are a few names among the singles players who’ll be looking to set the court ablaze.

The day’s action begins at 11:00 am with a dominant Miami Open winner Collins looking to continue her dream run against defending champion Jabeur in Round 3. Simultaneously, another Round 3 match-up will see Canadian star Leylah Fernandez take on archnemesis and 2016 Charleston Open champion, Sloane Stephens. The excitement shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon.

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These will be followed by a Round 4 match-up between top-seeded Pegula against unseeded Pole Magda Linette alongside a Round 3 battle between seventh-seeded Ukrainian Elina Svitolina and an unseeded Daria Saville of Australia. In another Round 3 Match, France’s unseeded Varvara Gracheva will go head-to-head against eleventh-seeded Elise Mertens of Belgium.

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Anticipation will build as later in the day players like Ashlyn Krueger, Emma Navarro, Victoria Azarenka, Beatriz Haddad Maia, and Anhelina Kalinina are set to display sparks of genius against undecided opponents. In the evening, after suitable rest, winners of the Round 3 will face their opponents in their Round 4 matchups.

Doubles Quarter Final Line Up

In the afternoon and evening time slots, the doubles quarter-finals will take place depending on the appropriate time of rest required by the players. Promising intense battles and top-level skills on display, the matches will be Madison Keys and Taylor Townsend against Ukrainian twin sisters, Lyudmyla Kichenok and Nadiia Kichenok, Nicole Melichar-Martinez and Ellen Perez against Magda Linette and Zhang Shuai, Ashlyn Kreuger, and Sloane Stephens against British duo of Olivia Nicholas and Heather Watson, and Hao-Ching Chan and Veronika Kudermetova vs Japanese pair, Eri Hozumi, and Makoto Ninomiya.

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The skies are going to be sunny and the players are going to be motivated to run deeper into their first clay and the largest all-women tournament in North America.

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