Jasmine Paolini and Barbora Krejcikova were one of them to continue to the 16 of the WTA 1000 Cincinnati Open on Tuesday, member of World No 2 Coco Gauff, who received a Walkover, but Jelena Ostapenko, the 23rd seed, fell on Lucia Bronzetti, while 2 Nights were subdivided by torzetti while 2 night bronzetti, while 2 night bronzetti, while 2 night bronzetti, while 2 night bronzetti, while 2 night bronzetti, while 2 night sessetti, while sess the bronzetti, while sess the bronzetti, while 2 night bronzetti, while sess the bronzetti.
Go point by point. I love all my photos, and it is very nice if I can put them all together, so they are logical. Sometimes not, and then it’s a disaster! You [want] To always play great tennis, which is impossible. I’m glad I’m here. Barbora Krejcikova
Paolini, the Italian 7th Seed, saved a set point, with 6-5 in the first set, on the way to beating the American Ashlyn Krueger, the no. 26 seed, 7-6 (2) 6-1, and will meet Krejcikova in a rematch of the 2024 Wimbledon for a place in the quarterfinals.
Two of the best points of the tournament came in just one match in Paolini and Krueger’s 3rd round meeting, when the Italian took a 15-40 lead on 4-4 in the first set after nailing a backhand pass to end a 24-stroke fair, while the American rescued the second of those breakpoints with a breakpoint with one breakpoint Cross-Cross-Cross-Cross-Cross-Cross-Cross-Cross-Cross-Cross-Cross-Cross-Court.
Paolini is looking for her 3rd coach this season to bring a feeling of ‘calmness’ to her team, after the world no. 9 Split with old coach Renzo Furlan earlier in the year, and hired Marc Lopez, who had previously worked with Rafael Nadal, but their partnership has now also ended after just 3 months.
The 2-way Grand Slam finalist has outlined her criteria for a new coach.
“Things happen, and I think you think it’s the right time to change something,” the 29-year-old told the tennis canal after beating Maria Sakkari in the 2nd round. “I had a great and very long relationship with Renzo, my coach of seven or eight years in the past.
“At one point I said,” Okay, I want to try something else “, so I have changed again, and then I changed again!
“At the moment I am trying to find the right person with a lot of calmness. At the moment the Italian tennis federation supports [me] With a man I know [when] We joined the Italian tennis federation, when I was 15 years old.
“Yes, we are a great team now, and who knows? We will see what the future will be, who will be the next coach, but I don’t know for sure yet and I still think about it.
“I think someone knows tennis very well. Someone who might also be calm because I like a bit like me, not too calm! I don’t know how to say in English, but someone calmly, someone who understands natural tennis. I don’t know, we’ll see …”
Barbora Krejcikova returns to form, but was pushed hard by 17-year-old IVA Jovic in Cincy, who eventually won in 3 sets on Tuesday
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The more direct challenge of Paolini, however, is a 2-way large champion Krejcikova, whose back-back of injury took a step forward with her hard fought 6-4 3-6 6-2 victory over 17-year-old Lucky Loser IVA Jovic from the US.
The Czech needed 7 match points to seal her victory after the 2 hours and 28 minutes.
“Good match!” A smiling Krejcikova said nodding and explained her arm to Jovic in her interview on the field. “Keep going!
“I wish I played on her when I was 17! I was absolutely not that far, and I feel that she has a great, great future for her. I am really happy that I have found my way.”
Solid Serving helped Krejcikova take the first set, but Jovic, the former Junior Nr. 2, settled in her game in the second when she found her reach of the basic line to combine a series of well -timed winners until even the game.
However, Krejcikova responded by raising her level in the decision maker, aggressive on return and building her most patient points of the game to take a fast 3-0 lead.
While Jovic fought to hold, in particular to save the first 6 match points against her, the wave turned out to be too wide to make up for it, and on the 7th the American teenager was double appropriate to send Krejcikova in a 4th round game with Paolini.
Krejcikova claimed her second big crown in Wimbledon against Paolini, who won the champion match, 6-2 2-6 6-4, and leads their overall straight head, 2-0.
The former world no 2 feels that she turns back to finish the first 6 months of the year to miss the first 6 months of the year because of a back injury.
“Going by point. I love all my photos,” she replied when she was asked to choose her favorite. “And it is very nice if I can put them all together, so they are logical. Sometimes not, and then it’s a disaster!”
This year, the 29-year-old full-minded Czech has struggled with her back and right thigh, which limited her to only 10 games for Cincy, of which she won 5.
Her Wimbledon title defense ended after just 3 games, while her other Grand Slam-Title run in Roland Garros in 2021 was also followed by a long stretch on the sidelines due to an injury.
Jovic comes from California, and the daughter of a Serbian father and Croatian mother, and decided to seriously strive for tennis when Covid struck, to close effective team sports and to try to try an individual.
By 2021 she was good enough to win the Orange Bowl as a 14-year-old, and since then Jovic has been the no 1-ranged US Junior, who has already won competitions at 3 of the Majors, and reached no. 89 in the ranking at the age of 17.
On 5 ‘7 ″, Jovic was a bit substandard compared to Krejcikova, but when she had viewed a advance, the young American insisted it, but her second serve was attackable and deep balls of the Czech that disturbed her.
Nevertheless, Jovic never lost her intense focus with wide eyes on every ball, and she certainly let Krejcikova work hard to win her victory.
“You [want] To always play great tennis, which is impossible, “said Krejcikova with a smile.” I’m glad I’m here. “
World No. 2 Coco Gauff received a walk-over from Dayana Yastremska, the 32nd seed, which withdrawn with reference to illness
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In the meantime, colleague 2-time SLAM winner Coco Gauff had withdrawn the last 16 without beating a ball.
The American No. 2 Seed was planned for no 32 Seed Dayana Yastremska, who defeated her in the 1st round of Wimbledon 6 weeks ago, but was performed by Walkover when the Ukrainian withdrew and quoted a disease.
Gauff is waiting for Lucia Bronzetti, who was brought up in 2 hours in 2 hours by getting the Jelena Ostapenko from Latvia, the No. 23 Seed, 1-6 6-3 6-4.
The Italian corresponded to the best WTA 1000 result of her career with the 3-Set Come-back victory and reached the 4th round for the first time since the Miami Miami 2022.
Varvara Gracheva of France achieved her first hard win on a top 20 player since 2023, by relieving a 6-2 6-4 victory over former Cincy finalist Karolina Muchova, which produced the biggest upset of the day by switching the talented Czech in one hour and 22 minutes.
Muchova, who reached the French Open-final in 2023, has an abundance of talent with an All-Court game, but has been hit by a large number of injuries over the years.
This season she ended the wrist operation in May, but still managed to return to No. 14 in the world, even though she employed a cut backhand because she was unable to use her trusted two-hazer.
Gracheva, a qualification, produced an impressive version against Muchova, after he had already fought in the tournament past the 24th seed Sofia Kenin and the American Wildcard Katie Volynets.
Although the French woman born in Russia had an early breaking point in the opening game, SH soon found her rhythm, with the help of her counter -punching skills to put Muchova under constant pressure.
The Czech was generous in her mistakes and made 16 casual miscues in the first set alone, including double mistakes at the breaking point, and Gracheva remained compiled to take control of the scoreboard.
Secondly, an early advantage slipped for the qualification after a double mistakes in a bad service game, but Muchova did not succeed in capitalizing, because the 25-year-old opponent remained stable in the rallies and decisively broke in the last game with an excellent return winner.
“I had a very good plan: let her move as much as possible, exert maximum pressure on her,” Gracheva told the media later. “She gave me a few points, but it mainly means that the plan worked.”
Statistically, Gracheva was the more clinical player, who converted 4 of 8 breaking points compared to only 1 of 4 for Muchova, and the victory ensures her return to the top 100, shortly after changing coaches.
Gracheva knows her next opponent, the 20-year-old German qualifying match Ella Seidel, who will be just as determined.
“We will be on the same basis,” said Gracheva. “She is a good player and winning five games already means she is a hunter. But we will prepare the game well and try to apply the tactics, just like against Muchova.”
Seidel continued her break-out tournament by saving 2 match points, one with a forehand winner in the corner, in the decisive tiebreak against American no 29 Seed McCartney Kessler, with 6-4 2-6 7-6 (6) to a confrontation with Gracheva.
The German, who competes in her first WTA 1000 main table, noted her 3rd career Top 50 win and the 2nd of the week after her upset by Emma Navarro, the American World No 11.
A serious thunderstorm shifted the courts in the Lindner Family Tennis Center on Tuesday evening in Mason, Ohio, so that 2 singles matches were postponed at night
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The Tuesday evening session came early when thunderstorms forced the postponement of 2 planned 3rd round games.
No. 4 Seed and defensive finalist Jessica Pegula from the US and the 31st placed Magda Linette from Poland completed 2 sets before the game was suspended for the night after heavy rain had hit the Lindner Family Tennis Center.
Linette won the first set in a tiebreak 7-6 (5) before Pegula returned to take the second set 6-3.
Heavy rain and lightning were predicted until after 10 p.m. local time and interrupted twice the second set between Linette and Pegula, before officials released an explanation shortly before the top of the hour, with the text: “Due to the rain there will be no further play tonight.”
Also postponed until Wednesday was the 3rd round between No. 16 Seed Clara Tauson from Denmark and the Russian Veronika Kudermetova, as well as 2 double matches.
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