Germany’s Tatjana Maria toppled No. 1 seed Jasmine Paolini of Italy 6-4, 6-3 on a day of upsets in the first round of the Lexus Eastbourne Open on Tuesday in England.<\/p>\n
Maria finished with an 8-0 edge in aces and won a stellar 24 of 28 first-service points (85.7%). Paolini was one of four seeded players to be knocked out Tuesday, with Australia’s Kimberly Birrell taking down Czech fourth seed Barbora Krejcikova 6-3, 7-6 (6) and Caty McNally outlasting Indonesian sixth seed Janice Tjen 7-5, 6-7 (5), 6-3 in three hours and 10 minutes.<\/p>\n
Finally, the Czech Republic’s Sara Bejlek saved a match point in the 12th game of the second set and turned the tables on German fifth seed Laura Siegemund 3-6, 7-6 (2), 7-6 (3) in three hours and 22 minutes.<\/p>\n
No. 2 seed Madison Keys avoided the carnage by handling business against Australian Talia Gibson 6-4, 6-4. Also advancing were Turkey’s Zeynep Sonmez, Hungary’s Panna Udvardy, Spaniard Jessica Bouzas Maneiro and Russian Anastasia Zakharova.<\/p>\n
Bad Homburg Open<\/p>\n
Elena-Gabriela Ruse of Romania needed just 61 minutes to knock off Czech fifth seed Linda Noskova 6-1, 6-3 in opening-round action in Bad Homburg, Germany.<\/p>\n
Ruse smashed 13 aces and saved both break points she faced. In other first-round matches, Emma Navarro edged Germany’s Eva Lys 7-6 (6), 6-3 and Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova got past Ann Li 6-1, 6-7 (5), 6-1. Navarro will face top seed Iga Swiatek of Poland in the second round.<\/p>\n
There were also three Round of 16 matches on tap Tuesday. Ukrainian third seed Elina Svitolina rallied past Russian Liudmila Samsonova 3-6, 6-3, 6-2; No. 6 seed Naomi Osaka of Japan swept Belgium’s Elise Mertens 6-3, 6-3; and China’s Xinyu Wang eased past Canada’s Leylah Fernandez 6-3, 6-4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany’s Tatjana Maria toppled No. 1 seed Jasmine Paolini of Italy 6-4, 6-3 on a day of upsets…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":757540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-757539","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\/757539","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=757539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}