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Badosa wins tight match against Mandlik

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Paula Badosa (pic) had to fight hard to beat Elizabeth Mandlik to advance in the San Jose WTA event. (AP PHOTO)
Camera IconPaula Badosa (pic) had to fight hard to beat Elizabeth Mandlik to advance in the San Jose WTA event. (AP PHOTO) Credit: AP

Fourth-ranked Paula Badosa broke serve twice late in the final set before winning a tiebreak to get past 21-year-old Elizabeth Mandlik 6-2 5-7 7-6 (7-5) at the Silicon Valley Classic.

Other winners in San Jose were Wimbledon runner-up Ons Jabeur of Tunisia, No.7 seed Daria Kasatkina of Russia and unseeded American Amanda Anisimova, who ousted eighth-seeded Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic 3-6 7-5 6-1.

Jabeur, the No.3 seed, defeated Madison Keys 7-5 6-1 and Kasatkina defeated another American, Taylor Townsend.

Mandlik, the daughter of four-time grand slam winner Hana Mandlikova, twice served for the match against Badosa while leading 5-4 and 6-5 in the decisive set.

But the Spaniard broke both times, then won three of the final four points of the tiebreak.

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