Favorites started on Tuesday with a great foot their time at Beaten Land on WTA 500 of Charleston Open. Madison Keys, Danielle Collins, Amanda Anisimova, Sofia Kenin and Maria Sakkari won their first game with authority.
Keys This is the most complex path to the 16th. The current Australian Open champion requires eight game balls Before getting rid of his countryman Caroline Dolehide of 6-3 and 7-6 (4).
Serial head number 2 ordered its first four game balls, with a set and a break break (6-3, 5-4). However, Dolehide was missing those opportunities, and two more in the next game, and returned to equality -equal to this second set of fighting a strong blow.
World Number 5 at the best moments of his career, will have to stand firm in the tie-break to finally defeat his countrymen and add his 20th success of the year.
For part of it, Collins started his defense of the title more than his countryman Robin Montgomery 6-3 and 6-1 in 1 hour and 9 minutes.
Last year, number 7 heads were made with the title in the middle of a stripe of 15 consecutive circuit success, returning it to the top 10 before the end of the year. Collins won his first WTA 500 title here last year, a week after winning his first WTA 1000 title at Miami 2024 Open.
Collins’s decision to keep his stripes in Charleston bright on Tuesday, when he defeated Montgomery, 20 years old. Collins won 80 percent of his first service points and rejected Montgomery, number 105 in the world, any breakdown throughout the night.
Sakkari started the day with 6-3, 6-2 victory in Marina Stakusic CanadianBefore Kenin imposed 6-3, 6-4 to his countryman Bernarda Money, who had both faced the second round of rivals.
Greek, which participates in the fourth time on this contest, is looking for a new impulse at the beginning of the Beaten Earth. Last year at this time, Sakkari was the third leader of Charleston, in the 7th ranking area, and reached the semifinals before falling before champion Danielle Collins.
Today, classified in 64th position after a shoulder injury that ended the 2024 season after opening the US, and with a 6-11 game balance this season, Greek expects its return to Charleston to serve as a springboard for the rest of 2025. In addition to reaching the semifinals last year, Sakkari also reached the quarterfinals in 2019.
However, Sakkari found a spark against Stakusic, 19, as the game began with a disadvantage of 3 and 0-30. He won seven consecutive games on the way to establish a second round of confrontation with the number 7 of the Zheng Qinwen world.
In the final game of the day, Amanda Anisimova (8) was completed by the fast track of Veronika Kudermetova of 6-2, 6-2.
Source: La Verdad
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