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Venus Williams upended defending champion Johanna Konta 5-7 6-1 6-2 on Monday to reach the Miami Masters quarterfinals while a dominant Victoria Azarenka also advanced with a straightforward win over Agnieszka Radwanska.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Three-time champion Williams stormed back from an early deficit to cruise past the British 11th seed, who needed several bouts of treatment on her lower back throughout a match that lasted two hours and 19 minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Perhaps more impressive was that Williams, who turns 38 in June, was able to look so in control despite playing a day after spending nearly three hours on the court for her third round clash against Dutchwoman Kiki Bertens.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Former world No. 1 Azarenka, in only her second event after an eight-month absence because of a custody dispute involving her son, also looked sharp throughout her 6-2 6-2 win over 30th-seeded Pole Radwanska.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Up next for the 28-year-old is Czech fifth seed Karolina Pliskova. Sloane Stephens beat Spanish third seed Garbine Muguruza 6-3 6-4. German 10th seed Angelique Kerber beat Chinese qualifier Wang Yafan 6-7(1) 7-6(5) 6-3.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ukrainian fourth seed Elina Svitolina also advanced with a 7-5 6-4 win over Australian Ashleigh Barty.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko capped the night session with a 7-6(4) 6-3 triumph over ninth-seeded Czech Petra Kvitova.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Miami, Venus Williams upended defending champion Johanna Konta 5-7 6-1 6-2 on Monday to reach the Miami Masters quarterfinals while a dominant Victoria Azarenka also advanced with a straightforward win over Agnieszka Radwanska. Three-time champion Williams stormed back from an early deficit to cruise past the British 11th seed, who needed several bouts of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26192,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26190\/revisions\/26192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}