Clara Tauson got the worst possible start to the new year when she lost 6-2, 6-3 against the World Nr. 113, Aliaksandra Sasnovich in the second round of the WTA tournament in Brisbane.<\/p>\n
Tauson<\/a>, ranked 14th in the world, went into the second round match as the favorite against Sasnovich<\/a>, who had to go through qualifying to reach the main tournament in Brisbane.<\/p>\n The Belarusian, ranked 113th in the world, had a bright start to the match against the Dane, who sat out the first round as she broke serve in her first game.\u00a0<\/p>\n Clara Tauson generally had problems in her own service games and fell behind 1-4 after the unsung Sasnovich again managed to break serve.\u00a0<\/p>\n Trailing 1-5 and down 15-40, Tauson then managed to fend off three Belarusian set points, but shortly after, she couldn’t prevent Sasnovich from securing the first set.<\/p>\n The second set began much more evenly, and the two players held serve until 3-3, which gave a brief hope of a Danish comeback.<\/p>\n Clara Tauson even had a single break point, which could have given her a 3-1 lead, but she missed the opportunity.\u00a0<\/p>\n Instead, the match was quickly decided by Sasnovich, who took a 4-3 lead before winning the last eight points of the match.<\/p>\n Clara Tauson’s opening to the new year is a big disappointment compared to last year, when the Dane began the year with a tournament win in New Zealand.<\/p>\n The WTA 500 tournament in Brisbane is the first of two tournaments that Tauson will play in Australia before the grand slam tournament Australian Open in Melbourne, later in January.<\/p>\n Next week, Tauson will take part in the WTA tournament in Adelaide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clara Tauson got the worst possible start to the new year when she lost 6-2, 6-3 against the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-358497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}