While seeds tumbled in Mexico on Wednesday, Kromp Rain in Cleveland …
Monterrey, Mexico – WTA 500 Open BNP Seguros
Top seeds Emma Navarro’s hope for a deep run on the WTA 500 Abierto GNP Seguros was made by her American countryman Alycia Parks on her first outing in Monterrey, Mexico, who at Beatriz Haddad Maia and Leylah Fernandez, the 4th and 7th seeds.
Navarro chose to refrain from the US Open Mixed Doubles Championships this week, where she should fight alongside Jannik Sinner, to try to regain her shape after she had lost 4 of the 5 singles matches she played since Wimbledon.
In fact, the World No 11 won only one match during the North American Swing, against Rebecca Marino, 6-1 6-2, in the 2nd round of the Canadian Open, and has now lost 20 of the 45 games this year.
Navarro will hope that her recent results will not hinder its performance at the US Open, where she reached the semi-final last year and lost to the final champion and world no. 1, Aryna Sabalenka, 6-3 7-6.
On Wednesday she was stunned by parks, 4-6 6-3 6-2, in an all-American 2nd round game that lasted 2 hours and 15 minutes.
After dropping the first set, Parks got the only service break of the second for a 2-0 lead and added breaks to each of Navarro’s first 3 service games of the last set to pull away.
It has also been a difficult year for 24-year-old parks, who have lost for the quarterfinals in every tournament she has introduced since Auckland, until this week in Monterrey, where she has compiled successive victories, with one of the best victories of her career that encounters Navarro.
Parks also struggled with injuries this season, but broke a 3-match losing series with a routine victory, 6-2 6-1, on Cristina Bucsa, a qualification from Spain before he disturbed Navarro.
Rebecca Sramkova arrived the 7th placed Leylah Fernandez in 3 sets and will meet Alycia Parks for a place in the semi -final in Monterrey on Thursday
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Next for parks is the Slovakia Rebecca Sramkova, who came along the 7th placed Leylah Fernandez of Canada, 2-6 6-3 6-2.
Sramkova took all 5 available breakpoints in the second and third sets to win the game in 2 hours 9 minutes.
It was a disappointing result for Fernandez, who is a double champion in Monterrey, and her 19th defeat in 40 games in 2025, and the 3rd in the last 4 games since lifting the DC Open in Washington in July, which was her first title in 2 years after beating the beating of Anna Kalinskayaa.
This last result hinders the preparations of Fernandez and will open the US, where it ended as second place in 2021 when she lost in the final of the British Emma Raducanu in straight sets.
On the other hand, the result is a good thing for Sramkova, who has now qualified for the 2nd time this year for the quarterfinals of a WTA event, her earlier appearance in the last 8 of a competition in the Nottingham Open, where she defeated Linda Noskova, 3-6 6-4 6-4.
It will be the second meeting between Sramkova and Parks on Tour, their only earlier meeting that more than 3 years ago in the qualifying round of the French Open in 2022, when the Slovaks came to the top, 6-7 6-4 6-4.
Diana Shnaider from Russia from third place won an All-Russian encounter with Kamilla Rakhimova, 7-6 (3) 6-1, and will follow the Elise Mertens of Belgium, the 5th seed.
The 21-year-old has confronted Mertens 3 times in her career, with two of those competitions this season.
Mertens won the first 2, including a routine victory in Monterrey in 2023, but Shnaider won their meeting in Rome on Clay and is this time the higher seed against Mertens.
Earlier this season, Shnaider was in the top 15, with 3 straight losses a recent setback, but she rails again with an opening gain against Rakhimova.
Mertens has compiled her best season on tour since 2021 and has to drop another set in Monterrey with a victory over Anna Blinkova and Wednesday Donna Vekic from Croatia, 6-3 6-3.
With 2 WTA titles this season and a final, Mertens is one of the most experienced players who stay in the draw.
Marie Bouzkova disrupted no. 4 seeds, Beatriz Haddad Maia, in straight sets to reach the last 8 on Wednesday in Mexico.
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4th placed Beatriz Haddad Maia from Brazil, however, was a victim on day 3, and fell, 6-3 6-4, to Marie Bouzkova from the Czech Republic.
The 27 -year -old Bouzkova is in good shape, with a top career of No. 24, because she enjoys the best weeks of her career during the hard court fluctuation.
A champion in Prague on Clay, about Noskova, she won two games in Montreal and has now done the same in Monterrey, so she took her count to 9 victories of her last 10 games, while she finds ‘more ways to be aggressive’ with her game.
Her first victory was 3-6 6-2 6-4 above Zeynep Sonmez of Turkey, before he sent Haddad Maia in straight sets.
A former finalist in Monterrey, in 2020, Bouzkova, who is fluent Spanish fluent Spanish, clearly looks at the chance to become champions in Mexico again.
Bouzkova neemt vervolgens Antonia Ruzic, een 22-jarige kwalificatiewedstrijd uit Kroatië, die onlangs een carrièrehoogte van nr. 84 heeft bereikt en deze week 5 wedstrijden in Monterrey heeft gewonnen, kwalificatie, en vervolgens Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vervangen voordat hij Italië’s Elisabetta Cocciado, 7-6 (2) 2-6 6-0, op woensdag heeft verstoord.
This year, RuZic has 2 ITF titles, while this is only her 2nd career WTA quart finale, which has already surpassed her previous career gain this season.
Elsewhere, the 6th placed Noskova German Tatjana Maria, 6-3 6-2, as the 20-year-old, who is the title defender in Monterrey, continues her rise to the Top 20.
The 2nd round match of the Czech with the German turned out to be relatively trouble -free, because Maria struggled with the power of Noskova, and her adhesive game was not a party for her on this occasion.
Noskova, a recent finalist in Prague, is already a dark horse for a US Open Run because she likes to play on hard courts.
In the last match of the night, Ekaterina Alexandrova 2nd placed 2nd placed Ajla Tomljanovic Australia, 6-4 6-3, a last 8 meeting with Noskova.
The Russian veteran is in a career -high ranking of No. 14, which almost surpassed its career -high victory in a season of 35 in 2019.
In Ladies Doubles Action, Wednesday beat Gabriela Dabrowski & Erin Routliffe from New Zealand Rakhimova & Irina Khromacheva, 6-2 6-1, on Wednesday to continue to the quarterfinals.
Dabrowski & Routliffe, which have all 5 possible breaking points converted into the firm 50 -minute match, Will Noskova & Sramkova in the last 8.
Top seed Liudmilla Samsonova took her campaign from the stamp at the WTA 250 tennis in the country powered by Rocket with a victory over qualifying coercion Yafan on Wednesday
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After Rain had restricted the game on Tuesday, Liudmila Samsonova from Russia with top seeds 8 double mistakes, while on Wednesday he the Chinese Wang Yafan, 6-2 6-4, with 6-2 6-4, in the 2nd round of tennis in the country in Cleveland, Ohio, on Wednesday.
Samsonova, in 19th place in the world, had lost its opening match in back-to-back tournaments since he reached the quarterfinals in Wimbledon.
In the only other singles match that was completed on Wednesday, Sorana Cirstea in Romania sought Jil Teichmann from Switzerland in just over an hour, 6-1 6-1.
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