Tennis News: Canadian tennis player Bianca Andreescu survived a tough match when she started the 2023 Bad Homburg Open against Sonay Kartal.
The fifth seed did her best to beat British tennis player Kartal 6-2, 3-6, 7-5 in 2 hours 27 minutes to advance to the second round of the Bad Homburg Open.
The victory is the second victory for the 2019 US Open champion in the third grass-court tournament he will play in the 2023 season. In the last two weeks, he lost in the second round of ‘s-Hertogenbosch before lose to the first to go around Berlin.
Last season, Andreescu made her debut in the final of the grass-court tournament held in Bad Homburg before losing to French tennis player Caroline Garcia.
Andreescu will be looking to return to the quarter-finals in Bad Homburg when she meets Rebeka Masarova in the second round after the Spaniard crushed Aliaksandra Sasnovich 6-3 6-2. The encounter will be their first meeting in the WTA tournament.
Fourth seed Mayar Sherif also got the chance after managing to beat the host, Anna Lena Friedsam 4-6, 6-4, 7-5. In the second round, the Egyptian tennis player will meet Italian tennis player, Lucia Bronzetti, who beat Austrian tennis player, Julia Grabher 6-4, 6-1.
The winner of the match will face eighth seed Varvara Gracheva or Italian tennis player Sara Errani in the quarter-finals of the Bad Homburg Open. Both tennis players managed to get through the opening match more easily.
The tennis player who from June 2023 represented France, Gracheva appeared powerful when she took down Romanian tennis player Jaqueline Cristian with a crushing 6-2, 6-1 result, while Errani eliminated the national Belgian Maryna Zanevska with a convincing result. 6-2, 6-3.
In other action, Czech tennis player Katerina Siniakova managed to beat seventh seed Elisabetta Cocciaretto 6-3 6-4 and booked a second-round match against Evgeniya Rodina who eliminated American Katie Volynets 6- 0 6-4.
Meanwhile, Linda Noskova will challenge second seed Liudmila Samsonova after the Czech national drowned Ukrainian national Kateryna Baindl 6-2, 7-5.
American tennis player Emma Navarro also performed very well when she beat Argentina’s Nadia Podoroska 6-2 6-0 and will meet French tennis player Alize Cornet in the second round.
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