The match between World Number One, Belaramusa Aryna Sabalenka and Switzerland Rebeka Masarova, of the second round of the Berlin Tennis Tournament, is postponed until Thursday at the end of the first row for track conditions, with slippery grass, especially on one side of the track.
Sabalenka won the first set of 6-2 and at the end of the partial, Masarova, who last December left Spain’s nationality to think that Switzerland, warned the judge of the situation and wanted not to play because his place in court was slippery due to moisture.
The referee accepted the indication and suspended the meeting that would continue on Thursday despite the unique world number. “Are you going to stop the game because he said the side was slippery? I just played two games on that side,” Sabalenka said.
The match is part of the order of Thursday’s game in a session that reflects the removal of the American Jessica Pegula, third in the world and currently owned by the title, wasting two game points against Russian Liudmila Samsonova, starring a good return (6-7 (8), 7-5 and 7-6 (5)) of two -friends.
The Russian, twenty of the world, kept the man for three and a half hours to defeat the American a second time. But Samsonova, winner of 2021, showed more well -being in the grass. The two successes in the pegula are on this surface. In Wimbledon, in 2021 and now in Berlin.
The champion in Heretogenbosch in 2024, also on the lawn, the latest of his five titles, finalist this course in Strasbourg, did not go down despite the fact that he was against ropes on the final stretch of the third set, when 5-4, pegula, had two game points. Russian, in service, saved in a solvent way, with two directly served and took the game to the tiebreaker, where he was superior.
Pegula, with eight trophies, two of these 2025, Charleston and Austin and finalists in Miami and Adelaida, he could not give her a continuation of her grass preparation. Berlin is its presentation on this type of surface. He never played the game before Wimbledon.
Meanwhile, Samsonova, will face the winner of the match between the Polaca Magdalena frech and the American Anisimova.
In the past, the Tunisian ons jabeur moved forward in Berlin. The twice finalist at Wimbledon took a step forward in this section of the season and got Jasmine Paolini in her first victory over a top 5 in nearly two years. He won the transalpine in the second rotation 6-3 and 6-1.
The African player will play in the quarterfinals against the winner of the rivalry between the Russian Diana Shnaider and the Czech Marketa Vondrousesova.
Tunisian and Samsonova joined the Spanish Paula Badosa, the eighth favorite, which also reached its quarterfinals of 2025 after defeating Emma Navarro 7-6 (2) and 6-3.
Badosa is waiting for the winner of the match between China Xinyu Wang and the American Coco Gaff, secondary standard.
Source: La Verdad
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