Alizé Cornet, 37th in the world, won her place on Wednesday for the quarter-finals of the WTA 250 tournament in Monastir in Tunisia, beating Briton Harriet Dart, 6-3, 6-4.
After her 3rd round at the US Open, the 32-year-old Frenchwoman, who reached the quarter-finals at the Australian Open earlier this year and the 8th at Wimbledon, was beaten in the first round in Portoroz on September 12 by the Slovenian Kaja Juvan. She hadn’t played since.
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For her return to competition, Cornet beat Brazilian Laura Pigossi 7-6 (7/3), 6-0 in the first round. In the next round, she will face either Anastasia Potapova (51st) or Slovenian Tamara Zidansek (101st). Another Frenchwoman qualified for the quarterfinals, Diane Parry, who took advantage of the abandonment of her opponent Lucrezia Stefanini, at 6-3, 1-0, will meet the winner of the match between Veronika Kudermetova (12th) and Magdalena Frech (120th) to try to reach the semi-finals.
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