Local competitor Nikola Bartunkova delivered a pleasant surprise to the fans in attendance when \u200dshe knocked off No. 3 seed Anna Blinkova of Russia 6-4, 6-4 in the opening round of the \u200bOstrava Open in Ostrava, Czech Republic on Monday.<\/p>\n
In a closely contested match, Bartunkova<\/a> broke serve up 5-4 in each set \u200cto come away with the upset<\/a>. Linda Fruhvirtova<\/a> also won \u200cin her home country Monday, beating Germany’s Mona Barthel<\/a> 7-6 (4), 6-4<\/a>.<\/p>\n Her older sister, Brenda Fruhvirtova<\/a>, was not so lucky, falling 6-1, 6-1<\/a> to French qualifier Fiona Ferro<\/a>. Another Czech competitor, Anna \u2060Siskova<\/a>, also lost her opening-round match, 6-4, 6-4<\/a>, to Germany’s Tamara \u200cKorpatsch<\/a>. American Alycia Parks<\/a> defeated Austria’s Julia Grabher<\/a> 7-6 (3), 6-2<\/a>.<\/p>\n Transylvania \u200bOpen<\/p>\n Top-seeded Emma Raducanu<\/a> started her tournament with a 6-0, 6-4<\/a> victory over Belgium’s Greet Minnen<\/a> on the indoor hard courts in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.<\/p>\n The British competitor needed only 70 minutes to advance, facing no break points while converting four of \u200cthe seven break opportunities she created.<\/p>\n No. 3 seed\u00a0Solana Cirstea<\/a> also began her run in the home-country tournament with a straight-sets win, 6-4, 6-4<\/a>, over Kamilla Rakhimova<\/a> of \u2060Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n In the only three-set match of the day, Russia’s Anastasia Zakharova<\/a> came back to beat wild-card competitor Karolina Pliskova<\/a> of the Czech Republic, 4-6, 6-2, 6-2<\/a>. Another Romanian, Ana Bogdan<\/a>, was defeated in straight sets by Poland’s Maja Chwalinska<\/a>, 6-3, 6-2<\/a>.<\/p>\n Abu Dhabi Open<\/p>\n Lucky-loser Aliaksandra Sasnovich<\/a> of Belarus pulled off a 6-4, 3-6, 6-1<\/a> upset of eighth-seeded Spaniard Paula Badosa<\/a> in opening-round action on the outdoor hard courts in the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n That was hardly the \u2060only drama of the day, as No. 7 seed \u200cJelena Ostapenko<\/a> from Latvia saved a pair of match points and survived being broken six times in a 5-7, 7-6 (4), 6-2<\/a> win over Oksana Selekhmeteva<\/a> of Russia in one of four three-set matches.<\/p>\n Indonesia’s Janice Tjen<\/a> \u2060defeated Australia’s Maya Joint<\/a> 7-6 (6), 3-6, 6-3<\/a>, and Simona \u200bWaltert<\/a> of Switzerland outlasted Australia’s Daria Kasatkina<\/a> 7-6 (5), 3-6, \u20606-4<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local competitor Nikola Bartunkova delivered a pleasant surprise to the fans in attendance when \u200dshe knocked off No.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-406971","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\/406971","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=406971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}