Match Report
\n Korda makes winning return in Winston-Salem; 17-year-old Blanch advances<\/p>\n
#NextGenATP Basvareddy among Monday winners<\/p>\n
August 19, 2025<\/p>\n
Winston-Salem Open<\/p>\n
Sebastian Korda, No. 86 in the PIF ATP Rankings, defeats Vit Kopriva in Winston-Salem on Monday.
\n By ATP Staff<\/p>\n
After being sidelined for two-and-a-half months due to a right shin stress fracture, Sebastian Korda<\/a> returned to competition Monday in winning fashion at the Winston-Salem Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n The 25-year-old American downed Vit Kopriva<\/a> 6-3, 6-4 to claim his 12th win of the season and first since Roland Garros<\/a>, according to the Infosys ATP Win\/Loss Index.<\/p>\n \u201cAll the emotions possible,\u201d Korda said when asked about how it feels to be back competing. \u201cIt\u2019s fun to be back here. The last time I was here was in 2023 and had some good results, so it\u2019s nice to be back here. Hopefully it stays hot and I can keep playing some good tennis.\u201d<\/p>\n Seeded 11th, Korda will next meet seventh seed Nuno Borges<\/a> or Poland\u2019s Kamil Majchrzak<\/a>.<\/p>\n In other action, it was a memorable day for #NextGenATP 17-year-old Darwin Blanch<\/a>, who claimed his maiden tour-level victory against former World No. 12 Borna Coric<\/a> 6-4, 7-6(5). The qualifier Blanch won the USTA Boys\u2019 18s Nationals in Kalamazoo earlier this month and has since continued his red-hot form.<\/p>\n Fellow qualifier and #NextGenATP American Nishesh Basavareddy<\/a> also advanced with a 6-2, 7-6(2) win against Belgian Raphael Collignon<\/a>. Basavreddy, seventh in the PIF ATP Live Race To Jeddah, is aiming for a return trip to the 20-and-under Next Gen ATP Finals presented by PIF<\/a>, which runs from 17-21 December. Blanch is 18th in the Race To Jeddah.<\/p>\n Marton Fucsovics<\/a> was a 6-3, 6-3 winner against Hugo Gaston<\/a>. Mattia Bellucci<\/a>, who won the Sumter Challenger on Sunday, made a fast start at the ATP 250 with a 6-4, 6-3 victory against Francisco Comesana<\/a>. Kamil Majchrzak<\/a> closed the day by upsetting seventh seed Nuno Borges<\/a> 6-1, 6-3.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Match Report Korda makes winning return in Winston-Salem; 17-year-old Blanch advances #NextGenATP Basvareddy among Monday winners August 19,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-80348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80348","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=80348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}