Rybakina and Pegula, the No. 1 and No. 2 seeds at the WTA 500 event, are both into the quarterfinals.

"I should have reacted better," Australian tennis player Marc Polmans wrote on X, added that the umpire, Ben Anderson, accepted his apology.

Australian tennis player Marc Polmans was defaulted from the final round of qualifying after a ball struck in anger hit chair umpire Ben Anderson in the face.