the latvian Jelena Ostapenko and the Estonian Annette Kontaveitfifth and seventh seeds, respectively, went through the first round of the WTA 500 tournament with difficulty and in three sleeves on Monday Abu Dhabi tennis.
Ostapenko, twelfth in the world ranking and champion of the Roland Garros tournament in 2017, needed 2 hours and 17 minutes of battle to defeat the combative American Danielle Collins by 7-5, 1-6 and 7-5.
The Latvian will face Canadian Rebecca Marino or Chinese Qinwen Zhen in the round of 16, who meet this Tuesday.
Kontaveit, number 18 in the world, beat the Chinese in 2 hours and 21 minutes Shaui Zhang by 6-4, 6-7 (4) and 6-4 to meet in the round of 16 with the winner of Tuesday’s duel between the American Shelby Rogers and the Canadian leylah fernandez.
This Monday, the Ukrainian also entered the round of 16 Martha Kostyuk and the Belgians elise mertenswho eliminated Romanian Sorana Cirstea (6-2, 1-6 and 6-2 in just two hours) and the Italian. Martina Trevisan (6-0 and 6-2 at an hour and a quarter).
Mertens will be the first opponent of the fourth favorite, the Russian Veronika Kudermetovaand Kostyuk, the one from the second, the Swiss Belinda Bencic.
This Tuesday the Spaniards entered the battle Paula Badosa and Garbine Muguruzarespectively against Russian Lyudmila Samsonovaeighth favorite, and the Czech Karolina Pliskova.
Source: La Verdad
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