Daria Kasatkina of Australia served four aces and saved 9 of 12 break points while recording a 7-5, 6-3 victory over sixth-seeded Liudmila Samsonova in the first round of the Internationaux de Strasbourg in France.<\/p>\n
Kasatkina also converted 5 of 7 break points and will play American Peyton Stearns on Tuesday. No. 8 seed Marie Bouzkova posted a 7-6 (3), 6-3 win over Katerina Siniakova in an all-Czech battle.<\/p>\n
Ukraine’s Oleksandra Oliynykova rallied for a 3-6, 7-5, 6-3 victory over Alexandra Eala of the Philippines. Romania’s Jaqueline Cristian routed McCartney Kessler 6-1, 6-1 and Poland’s Magdalena Frech beat Australia’s Talia Gibson 7-6 (0), 6-3.<\/p>\n
Lucky loser Diane Parry of France replaces injured Madison Keys (thigh) in the draw and will face Emma Raducanu of Great Britain on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem<\/p>\n
No. 8 seed Alycia Parks saved 5 of 6 break points while registering a 6-2, 6-4 victory over Japan’s Moyuka Uchijima in first-round play at Rabat, Morocco.<\/p>\n
The American will next face Switzerland’s Jil Teichmann, who notched a 6-4, 7-6 (5) victory over Austria’s Julia Grabher. Fifth-seeded Anna Bondar of Hungary advanced after two games when Slovenia’s Polona Hercog retired with back and hip injuries.<\/p>\n
No. 6 Petra Marcinko of Croatia beat Russia’s Vera Zvonareva 6-2, 6-4 and No. 7 Panna Udvardy of Hungary cruised to a 6-4, 6-2 win over Belgium’s Hanne Vandewinkel. Ukraine’s Anhelina Kalinina ousted Switzerland’s Simona Waltert 6-3, 6-4 and France’s Fiona Ferro defeated Montenegro’s Danka Kovinic 6-2, 6-3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daria Kasatkina of Australia served four aces and saved 9 of 12 break points while recording a 7-5,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-678566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}