Clara Burel offered Thursday the American Emma Navarro, seeded number 5 of the 250 tournament of Lausanne on clay that the French largely beat 6-3, 6-2, to climb in the quarter-finals.
Faced with the 53rd player in the world, who remained on a 6-0, 6-0 in the first round against another Frenchwoman, Leolia Jeanjean, Clara Burel (84th in the world) did not tremble. With six break points converted out of eight procured, the Bretonne was effective on the important points.
The 22-year-old Frenchwoman confirmed her good form in July. Titled at the ITF tournament in Montpellier and quarter-finalist in Palermo (250) last week, she is ten places behind her best ranking.
After Diane Parry earlier in the day, and while waiting to meet Alizé Cornet at the end of the afternoon, she is the second tricolor to join the quarterfinals in Lausanne, where she will face the Romanian Ana Bogdan (39th), who has just won the ATP 125 tournament in Iasi, in his country, on Sunday.
