Top-seeded Clara Tauson of Denmark and third-seeded Barbora Krejcikova of the Czech Republic cruised to victories on Thursday in the second round at the Athens Open in Greece.<\/p>\n
Tauson routed Italy’s Miriana Tona, 6-4, 6-0, while Krejcikova dropped only two games in a 6-0, 6-2 triumph over France’s Carole Monnet.<\/p>\n
However, second-seeded Ann Li fell to Russian Alina Korneeva, 6-2, 6-2. Li won only 25 of 60 (41.7%) of her service points in the match on the hard courts of Athens.<\/p>\n
In the day’s other match, seventh-seeded Czech Tereza Valentova had little trouble with Russia’s Aliaksandra Sasnovich, defeating her 6-3, 6-2. Valentova capitalized on her opponent’s poor second service, winning 16 of 19 points.<\/p>\n
In the lone quarterfinal matchup of seeded players on Friday, Tauson will take on fifth-seeded Czech Sara Bejlek. Local favorite and fourth-seeded Maria Sakkari of Greece faces Alycia Parks.<\/p>\n
UniCredit Iasi Open<\/p>\n
Spain’s unseeded Paula Badosa continued her improved play as she outlasted Russia’s Alevtina Ibragimova, 7-6 (5), 1-6, 6-4 to reach the quarterfinals on the clay in Romania.<\/p>\n
The former World No. 2 player is coming off a tournament victory in Bastad, Sweden, a week ago. After losing 10 of 12 games and falling behind 4-1 in the deciding set, Badosa rallied to win the final five games of the match. She secured the victory on her fourth match point attempt off of Ibragimova’s serve.<\/p>\n
Third-seeded Oleksandra Oliynykova of Ukraine routed Russia’s Elena Pridankina, 6-1, 6-2, while Hungary’s No. 5 Panna Udvardy rallied to edge Poland’s Katarzyna Kawa, 1-6, 7-5, 6-2.<\/p>\n
In a match of unseeded players, Egypt’s Mayar Sherif edged Kaitlin Quevado of Spain, 6-3, 7-6 (2).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top-seeded Clara Tauson of Denmark and third-seeded Barbora Krejcikova of the Czech Republic cruised to victories on Thursday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":806646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-806645","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\/806645","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=806645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}