BAD HOMBURG, Germany \u2014 Mirra Andreeva lost in her first match since\u00a0winning the French Open, beaten in her only grass-court tuneup before\u00a0Wimbledon\u00a0by Ekaterina Alexandrova on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The two Russian players hugged at the net after Alexandrova overcame Andreeva and\u00a0the heat wave baking Europe\u00a0to win 6-3, 6-4 for a place in the quarterfinals of the Bad Homburg Open.<\/p>\n
In the second set, the 19-year-old French Open champion pulled off a table tennis-style trick shot which had so much backspin it landed on Alexandrova’s side of the court before bouncing back over the net to win Andreeva the point.<\/p>\n
Alexandrova next faces\u00a0Naomi Osaka\u00a0at Bad Homburg.<\/p>\n
Top-seeded Iga Swiatek also lost Wednesday, struggling with her serve in a 7-5, 2-6, 6-3 defeat to Emma Navarro. Swiatek had six double faults in the first set alone. The\u00a0runner-up in Nottingham\u00a0last week, Navarro improved to a 6-2 record on grass this season and will play Elena Gabriela Ruse in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n
The top three seeded players at the tournament are all out. French Open quarterfinalist Elina Svitolina, seeded third, withdrew Wednesday ahead of the quarterfinals, citing fitness issues after her second-round win over Liudmila Samsonova.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt took a little bit more than expected out of my body, so therefore I need a few more days to recover,\u201d she said in a video statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAD HOMBURG, Germany \u2014 Mirra Andreeva lost in her first match since\u00a0winning the French Open, beaten in her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-759474","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\/759474","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=759474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}