the czech Petra Kvitova, winner of the Madrid tournament in 2011, 2015 and 2018, fell in this edition to Swiss Jill Teichmann 6-3, 7-5 in the first roundbeaten anonymously in the first set and failed to complete a reaction attempt in the second.
Both left-handed, close to the WTA rankings, with Kvitova in 30th place and Teichmann in 35th, and also paired in terms of background, with victory for each of their past encountersthat equality is far from visible on the central court of Caja Mágica: the Barcelona-born Swiss led 6-3 and 3-1 without encountering opposition from his rival.
Kvitova then signed three consecutive games and endured the tug until 5-5, when Teichmann broke his service for the fourth time and then confirmed him on center court, today tomorrow after a rainstorm. in Madrid on Thursday. .
The Czech, who in the last two editions fell to Caja Mágica in the quarterfinals, He withdrew two weeks ago injured from the tournament in Charleston and then lost in the first round in Stuttgart.
This is the first time since 2011 that the 32-year-old Kvitova has played in Madrid without being seeded.
The victory allowed Teichmann to regain good feeling after losing in the round of 16 in Istanbul against 194 in the worldthe Austrian Julia Grabher, and in the first round of Indian Wells and Miami.
In addition, the withdrawal on the eve of the world number one tournament, Polish Iga Swiatek, whom he will face in the second round, clears the way for him at the top of the table, which he will not do. meet an important rival until the quarterfinals, the British Emma Raducanu, ninth favorite.
In another first-round match played this Friday, the Kazakh Elena Rybakina, seeded sixteenth, defeated Oceane Dodin of France 6-2, 7-5.
Three seeds were removed on opening day on Thursday: third-seeded defending champion Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus, fifth-seeded Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic, and tenth-seeded Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia.
Source: La Verdad
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