{"id":704683,"date":"2026-07-22T05:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T05:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/704683\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T05:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T05:27:14","slug":"wta-roundup-barbora-krejcikova-cruises-to-first-round-win-in-prague-field-level-media-professional-sports-content-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/704683\/","title":{"rendered":"WTA roundup: Barbora Krejcikova cruises to first-round win in Prague &#8211; Field Level Media &#8211; Professional sports content solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Second-seeded Barbora Krejcikova converted 6 of 8 break points while sailing to a 6-2, 6-4 victory over Linda Fruhvirtova on Wednesday in a first-round all-Czech matchup in Prague.<\/p>\n<p>Krejcikova won 73.1% of her first-serve points (19 of 26) in a match that took one hour and 18 minutes. Krejcikova won the final three games of the first set and the last four of the second.<\/p>\n<p>Czechs seeded No. 3, 4 and 5 also won their matches. Sara Bejlek, seeded third, knocked off Russian Anna Blinkova 7-6 (9), 3-6, 6-1. No. 4 Nikola Bartunkova rallied for a 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 triumph over China\u2019s Yuan Yue and No. 5 Tereza Valentova rolled to a 6-3, 6-1 win over Australia\u2019s Priscilla Hon.<\/p>\n<p>Also, American-born Aussie Maya Joint posted a 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 victory over Laura Samson of Czechia. Joint was the player who beat Serena Williams in the first round in the latter\u2019s recent comeback attempt at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p>MSC Hamburg Ladies Open<\/p>\n<p>Top-seeded Oleksandra Oliynykova saved 16 of 22 break points while registering a 6-2, 3-6, 7-5 victory over Germany\u2019s Nastasja Schunk in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Oliynykova cruised through the first set before Schunk won the final four games of the second set to even the match. Oliynykova led 4-1 in the third before Schunk recovered to knot it at 5. Oliynykova then won the final two games.<\/p>\n<p>No. 3 Panna Udvardy of Hungary notched a 6-4, 6-2 victory over Elena Pridankina of Russia. No. 5 Tamara Korpatsch of Germany won 4-6, 7-5, 1-0 when Andorra\u2019s Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva retired due to a lower-leg injury.<\/p>\n<p>No. 7 Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan beat Germany\u2019s Mona Barthel 6-2, 7-6 (5), and No. 8 Sinja Kraus of Austria rallied for a 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 win over Darja Semenistaja of Latvia.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013Field Level Media<\/p>\n<p>                                        <img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/be4452b65ace878d206f2029709048c825036e3517e6a89f4eedc3d4c530e2ba.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-96 photo\" height=\"96\" width=\"96\" decoding=\"async\"\/>                                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Second-seeded Barbora Krejcikova converted 6 of 8 break points while sailing to a 6-2, 6-4 victory over Linda&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-704683","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\/704683","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=704683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}