James Duckworth and Ajla Tomljanovic are continuing to enjoy a late-season surge in Asia, coming through qualifying at events in Kazakhstan and China to reach the quarter-finals after a blizzard of matches.
The ever-willing qualifier Duckworth, still going strong at 33 despite an injury list that would have sunk lesser athletes, enjoyed his best victory of the year, knocking out last year's finalist Gabriel Diallo 7-6 (7-3) 6-7 (3-7) 6-4 in the last-16 of the Almaty Open in his fourth match in five days.
Meanwhile, former Australian No.1 Tomljanovic will surge back into the WTA's top-100 next week after beating Turkey's Zeynep Sonmez 7-6 (8-6) 6-3 in straight sets in her last-16 contest on Wednesday, also her fourth win in five days at China's Ningbo Open.
