The WTA Tour will continue this week with a WTA 500 in Guadalajara in Mexico and a WTA 250 in Sāo Paulo, Brazil …
Guadalajara, Mexico | WTA 500 Guadalajara Open Akron presented by Santander
Darja Vidmanova from the Czech Republic opened the game on the GDL Open Akron on Monday and eliminated American Alycia Parks in the 1st round, 6-2 6-4.
Parks, arranged 58 and in 7th place, was defeated after an hour and 23 hours of action by the qualification in the American Tennis Center Pan.
The American made 10 double mistakes, compared to only 2 of Vidmanova, and was broken 4 times, while she only converted 1 of her 4 chances.
The Czech made a point of 5 consecutive games to complete the set on her serve, and although Parks would improve in the second by going up 3-1, Vidmanova broke back to the level before he went up for a further break for 5-4 and sealed the game in the next game.
The next Vidmanova will defeated Italian Nicole Fossa Huergo, 6-4 6-2, opposite her fellow countryman Nikola Bartunkova, who defeated Italian Nicole Fossa in an hour and 43 minutes.
Bartunkova had 6 breaking point options in the first set and only converted one for 3-2, but it was enough to take the lead.
In the second set, the Czech 2 early breaks converted to take a comfortable 4-0 lead, and despite the Italian’s attempt to fight back with 2 consecutive games, it was not enough, and Bartunkova closed the game with a new break and then her serve.
The 17-year-old American, IVA Jovic, the youngest participant in the tournament, assured her place in the 2nd round with a 6-4 4-6 6-3, defeat of Kataryna Kawa van Polen.
This is Jovic’s second victory this year against Kawa, after he defeated her in the 3rd round of Wimbledon qualification.
Jovic took the first set with some difficulty, after leading 5-2, but Kawa closed the gap with 4-5, but could not consolidate.
Kawa gathered in the second, when Jovic started to commit more casual mistakes and the post broke twice and held 2 set points, but the American recovered one of them before Kawa got her second chance.
They exchanged breaks in the first 2 games of the last set, and Kawa had another one to go with 3-2, but Jovic organized a Come-Back to win the next 4 games and move forward to make the winner of the match between Camila Osorio and Kamilla Rakhimova in round 2.
Verónica Jiménez Kasintseva also booked her place in the 2nd round, beat Russian Elena Pridankina, 6-4 6-3, both of which have earned a place in the main drawing as qualifications.
In the next round, Jiménez Kasintseva will be confronted with no. 2 Seed Veronika Kudermetova from Russia, who received a 1st round bye.
Nauhany Vorroria Leme da Silva was the first player to be born in 2010 to won WTA Tour match when the Wild-Card opened her home fans on day 1 of the Sao Paulo by beating her countryman Carolina Alves
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Sāo Paulo, Brazil | WTA 250 Sāo Paulo Open
Nathan Vorroria Leme da Silva van Brazil was the first player to be born in 2010 to won WTA Tour match when the Wild-Card opened her home fans on day 1 of the Sao Paulo by beating her countryman Carolina Alves, 6-7 (0) 6-2 6-0, in 1 hour and 49 minutes.
The first Hologic WTA Tour event that would be held in Brazil since 2000 was an appropriate location for the Milestone victory of the 15-year-old, played on the Quadra Central Maria Esther Bueno, named after the legendary Brazilian who placed Brazil on the map in Singles-7 in Singles-7 to put.
Leme da Silva then told the interviewer on the track that she grew up on the same courts in the Villa-Lobos State Park, where the tournament is held in the Alto de Pinheiros district in the city.
Leme da Silva, arranged at 1,206, only disputes her 7th professional event and will be guaranteed to rise in the top 1,000 next week.
Leme da Silva known to fans because of her nickname of Nana, is also ranked no. 37 in juniors and this year made the 3rd round of the Wimbledon Girls event.
The match of Leme da Silva against NO 237-Gerangen Alves was the first All-Brazilian collision at the tour level since Teliana Pereira Beatriz Haddad Maia defeated Miami in 2016.
With her talent, the teenager broke up early, especially with agile drop shots and a wild forehand, and saved the first 2 set points against her while forced a 3-5 tiebreak down.
Once there, however, the greater experience of Alves was decisive when the 29-year-old ran the last 7 points of the set.
The reaction of Leme da Silva was emphatically, and from 2-1 in the second set she lost no other match and rattled 11 in a row to achieve her first victory over a top 300 player.
She will be confronted a top 100 player for the first time in the 2nd round, Argentin’s no. 2 Seed Solana Sierra, who came from 7-6 (4) 6-3 about Arianne Hartono from the Netherlands.
Another 15-year-old Brazilian wildcard, Victoria Luiza Barros, also impressed by her WTA debut, with a no. 136 ranked Whitney Osuigwe from the US 4-1 in the second set before he dropped, 6-3 6-4.
Only 4 months older than Leme da Silva, Barros is the Junior No. 19 and disputes its 5H professional tournament.
Elsewhere, TiantSsoa Rakotomanga Rajaonah supplied one of the most remarkable backs of the year, as a result of which a 0-5 third set was destroyed to beat Ana Sofia Sánchez of Mexico, 6-4 4-6 7-6 (7), in 2 hours and 54 minutes.
The 19-year-old French woman led by a set and with 3-1, to lose 10 of the following 11 games, but a series of flashy Forehand winners enabled her to get her Houdini act, which saved 3 match points-one left behind 5-1 and two more down 5-4-ground.
In other Monday results, Janice Tjen from Indonesia Leolia Jeiesean, the French 7th seed, 6-2 6-3, and she will meet Martina Okalova, a Slovak qualification, who defeated Arina Rodionova in Australia, 7-5 6-4.
Also until the 2nd round is Argentinian Julia Riera, a 6-3 7-6 (1) winner on Vitalia Datchenko from Russia.
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