The Spanish Paula Badosa24 years old and world number four, returned with a defeat almost a month after he left Roland Garros for an injury. Failed in his contest presentation Eastbourne WTA lost to unknown Jodie Burrage (6-4 and 6-3), who had little presence on the circuit throughout the season.
Badosa, who was injured in the third round of Roland Garros, had to retire due to a right leg injury. He has not returned to the slopes since. He decided to reappear in Eastbourne, on the lawn, with an eye Wimbledon, which starts on Monday 27 June.
This year’s winner in Sydney was accused of inactivity against a rival more skilled on this surface and that in the first round surprised Croatian Petra Martic.
The 23-year-old Londoner, 169th in the ranking, faced Badosa unable to find a way to take advantage of the scoreboard. The British broke down in the ninth game and then rolled to close out the set and put the win on the track.
This put Paula Badosa off to a bad start in the second. He suddenly ran into a 4-0 fight that he was unable to correct.
Burrage closed out the victory with an hour and 13 minutes to meet one of the most fit players at the moment, the Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia, who amassed eleven consecutive winsall on the grass, against Estonian Kaia Kanepi (6-4, 3-6 and 6-3).
The Eastbourne tournament has only one Spaniard left, Garbiñe Muguruzawho met his rival in the round of 16. the italian Camilla Giorgitwelfth seed, beating Canadian Rebecca Marino 7-5, 6-4.
The current champion, Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, remained in the tournament, but not the double winner in Eastbourne, in 2017 and 2019, Czech Karolina Pliskova.
Ostapenko, seeded eighth, is undefeated against Australian Alja Tomljanovic for a 6-4 double and will face the American madison keyseleventh, who won at Eastbourne in 2014 and defeated American Lauren Davis (6-4 and 6-3).
Pliskova, for her part, lost her advantage against British Katie Boulter (1-6, 6-4 and 6-4) and will face Czech Petra Kvitova who fulfilled against Croatian Donna Vekic (6-1 and 7-6 (). 1)).
Another of the surprises of the session was the Greek farewell Maria Sakkar |third seed, unable to maintain her advantage against Ukrainian Anhelina Kalinina (1-6, 6-4 and 6-4) who will play in the round of 16 with Kazakh Yulia Putintseva.
In addition, Kirsten Flipkens won the Belgian duel against Elise Mertens (6-2, 2-6 and 6-1) and will play against Bulgarian Viktoriya Tomova who eliminated American Shelby Rogers (4-6, 6-3 at 6-2).
Ukrainian Lesia Tsurenko eliminated ninth favorite, Kazakh Elena Rybakina (1-6, 7-5 and 6-3) and will rival Polish Magda Linette in the round of 16, which Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk also reached to beat Czech Barbora Krejcikova (4-6, 6-3 and 6-4).
Source: La Verdad
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