Camila Giorgi eliminated 33-year-old Alize Cornet in straight sets 6-3, 6-4. 24 seed Anastasia Potapova rolled Taylor Townsend in straights 6-1, 6-2. 19 Qinwen Zheng had an easy victory over former semifinalist Tamara Zidansek 6-3, 6-1. 21 seed Magda Linette in three sets 6-3, 1-6, 6-3. Leylah Fernandez knocked out Australian Open semifinalist and No. The 15th-seeded Liudmila Samsonova hammered 21-year-old American Katie Volynets 6-0, 6-1. Other top results saw the 9th-seeded Daria Kasatkina, who made the semifinals last year, move past Germany’s Jule Niemeier 6-3, 6-4. 3 seed Jessica Pegula her fifth straight over countrywoman Danielle Collins 6-4, 6-2. But unfortunately, it’s not in our hands.” “Why do we have to go loud and say that? If it could affect anyhow the war, if it could like stop it, we would do it. ![]() Sabalenka responded, “How can we support the war? Nobody, normal people will never support it. “She never says that she personally doesn’t support this war,” Kostyuk said. “I want to see people react to it in ten years, they will not feel really nice about what they did,” Kostyuk said of the booing. After the win, the Ukrainian Kostyuk continued her custom of not shaking hands with Belarussian or Russian opponents, and that act drew boos from fans. 2 and Australian Open winner Aryna Sabalenka going down a break 3-2 in the first before rolling Marta Kostyuk 6-3, 6-2. I’m just, again, glad that I finished it in two.”Ĭhatrier opened with world No. Obviously I knew I have a tough draw, and it’s going to be a tough match, and it was. “I got some matches under the belt, so that helps. “I had a great run in Rome, so that for sure boosts my confidence a little bit on clay,” Muchova said. The 8th seed is also the first Top 10 seed eliminated in either draw. She suffers her first opening round exit in Paris since 2017,and first at any Slam since the 2021 Australian. Sakkari, a former French Open semifinalist, lost to Muchova in the second round last year. They were the better team in all facets of the game and deservingly find themselves in the semis.Opening day at the 2023 French Open saw one top 10 seed fall as Maria Sakkari suffered her second straight loss at the French Open to Karolina Muchova who took it 7-6(5), 7-5 in the match of the day on the women’s side. Detiuc and Blinkova made light work of their opponents as they picked up a victory in straight sets 6-2, 6-4. ![]() Anna Blinkova (Transylvania Open – Twitter)īlinkova and Detiuc began their campaign at Limoges against the team of Julia Lohoff and Alena Fomina-Klotz. However, that didn’t work wonders as the team was ousted in the quarterfinals as they lost to eventual champion Alycia Parks and Zhang Shuai. Interestingly, Detiuc partnered with Kalashnikova at the WTA Angers Arena Loire Open. They would hope to serve better in the semis. However, the duo accumulated a total of 7 double faults and it could have proved to be decisive in the end. The decisive third set went the way of Kostyuk and Kalashnikova as they won the match 6-3, 6-7 (3-7), 10-4. Kostyuk and Kalashnikova won the first set but the Frenchwomen came back strongly to take the second set. In the round of 16 in Limoges, Kostyuk and Kalashnikova faced the French duo of Marine Partaud and Elixane Lechemia.
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