The match between the Spaniards Rebecca Masarova and the Argentine Nadia Podoroskaof first round of the Berlin tournamentwill be completed on Wednesday after being postponed due to a lack of light, on a day also marred by rain and which included the premature elimination of the reigning champion, the Tunisian Ounce Jabeur.
The clash between the Spaniards and the Argentines came to a halt when the score was tied at one set. The first round went to Masarova 6-3 and by the same score Podoroska won the second. In the third and final quarter the result was a tie at one game. The winner of this confrontation awaits the Czech Petra Kvitova, seventh favorite.
The match between the Belarusians could not be completed either Viktoria Azarenka and Aliaksandra Sasnovich, who had the advantage 6-4 and 1-1. They couldn’t even begin the matches between the Greek Maria Sakkari, the sixth favorite, and the French Alize Cornet and the Russian Veronika Kudermetova and the Chinese Zheng Qinwen.
The match was included in the order of play between the Canadians Bianca Andreescu and the check Marketa Vondrousova. The winner of this match will be the German rival jule niemeier who gave a big surprise in the session by defeating the current champion and fourth seed, the Tunisian Ounce Jabeur. The German won in two sets, for 7-6(4) and 6-4 and is in the round of 16.
It did not fail, however, the Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova, who defeated her compatriot Lidumila Samsonova and extended her streak. Alexandrova won 6-4, 6-3, taking her winning streak on grass to six. Last Sunday she was declared the winner, for the second year in a row, of the Bolduque tournament and now, in the second round, she will face American Cori Gauff, fifth favorite, who defeated Czech Katerina Siniakova 6-3, 6 -4.
The first two seeds also flourished. the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenkafirst, who won in Russian Vera Zvonareva through 6-3 and 6-2 and the winner of the duel between Veronika Kudermetova and Qinwen Zheng will play.
The second favorite, the Kazakh Elena Rybakina, eliminated Russian Polina Kudermetova 6-4, 6-2 and will play Croatian Donna Vekic. The third seed, the French Caroline Garcia already has a rival. It was the Australian Jaimee Fourlis who benefited from the abandonment of the Chinese Xinyu Wang.
Finally, Eina Avanesyan won the Russian duel against the eighth favorite, Daria Kasatkina (6-2, 3-6 and 7-6(7)) and in the round of 16 she will play her compatriot Anna Blinkova, eliminating local Laura Siegemund (6-3, 6-7 (3) and 7-5).
Source: La Verdad
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