Naomi Osaka and Coco Gauff advanced this Tuesday to the second round of the WTA 500 tournament in San Joséon a day where Canadian Bianca Andreescu, US Open champion in 2019, succumbed to American Shelby Rogers.
Osaka, winner of four Grand Slam titles and currently number 41 in the world, beat China’s Winwen Zheng 6-4, 3-6, 6-1one of the most improved players since last year, after climbing more than one hundred positions in the ranking and placing in position 51.
The Japanese will play in the high-level round of 16 with Coco Gauff, who authoritatively defeated Anhelina Kalinina. The winner of this duel will be Paula Badosa’s rival in the quarterfinalson the condition that the Spaniards beat the young American Elizabeth Mandlik this Wednesday (around midnight Spanish time).
Gauff barely lost a game and won 6-1 and 6-0 in just 54 minutes of the game.
The American boy, sixth favorite, it is confirmed to be difficult against rivals who are not part of the first 50 players in the worldwhich added a streak of fourteen consecutive victories.
The tournament was lost to the Canadian Andreescuwho three years ago was crowned champion of the United States Open, was eliminated by Shelby Rogers (6-4 and 6-2), number 45 in the world.
Andreescu dropped to the 54th position in the ranking and was unable to beat Rogers, a rival he had already defeated last year in Chicago.
Rogers will face Greek Maria Sakkari, the early favorite in San José, ahead of Badosa in the next round.
pedigree rival
The Catalan It starts against Czech daughter Hana Mandlikova, winner of four ‘Grand Slam’ tournaments in the 80sand Vilem Mandlik, an athlete who participated in two editions of the Olympic Games.
Number 240 in the world ranking, Mandlik entered the main draw after winning two qualifying rounds, against Mexican Fernanda Contreras and Swiss Jil Teichmann, and pulled off a big surprise against Alison Riske, number 33, to advance to the Californian tournament and meet to the second favorite, Paula Badosa.
Her mother is Hana Mandlikova, who in the 1980s won two Australian Opens, in 1980 and 1987, the 1981 Roland Garros and the 1985 US Open.
The Czech also rose to glory at Wimbledon, but lost in the 1981 and 1986 finals. In addition, she was crowned champion in the 1989 US Open doubles tournament competing with Martina Navratilova.
His father, Vilem Mandlik, was the best Czech athlete between 1955 and 1965 and participated in two editions of the Olympic Games, in Melbourne 1956 and in Rome 1960.
Source: La Verdad
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