Germany’s\u00a0Anna-Lena Friedsam, the No.1 seed in qualifying, progressed to the next round with a 6-1, 6-4 victory over British wild card Sophie Bekker.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Friedsam, currently ranked\u00a0 world No.242 with a career-high of 45, will next meet Victoria Allen, a 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 winner against Leticia Romanova in an all-British contest.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Another clash between two Brits unfortunately ended early owing to Indianna Spink having to retire through injury having lost the opening set 6-2 against Eliz Maloney, who impressively reached the quarter-finals of this W100 event in 2022 when the tournament was played in Shrewsbury before moving to Wrexham.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Maloney’s next opponent tomorrow will be Germany’s Tessa Johanna Brockmann, a 6-3, 6-4 winner against British player Mia Wainwright.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lois Newberry, another of the Brits in action on the opening day, was just edged out in the third set 5-7, 6-4, 7-5 by much higher-ranked American Dalayna Hewitt.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Estonia’s Elena Malygina, who reached the Lexus Wrexham Open semi-finals last year, lost the opening set to British player Savannah Dada-Mascoll before responding positively to advance to the next round. Dada-Mascoll impressively won the opener against an opponent ranked more than 1,000 places higher, before Malygina, the current world No.265, hit back to progress 2-6, 6-2, 6-1.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She next faces Alice Gillan tomorrow after she got the better of fellow Brit Lily Hutchings 6-3, 6-2, while\u00a0Amelie Brooks lost 6-3, 6-3 against Germany’s Caroline Werner.<\/p>\n
Three British wild cards made first qualifying round exits. Annabel Wong took the first set before losing 2-6, 6-2, 6-3 to Czech player Petra Sedlackova, while Rosie Cho went down 6-2, 6-1 to Japan’s Mayuka Aikawa and Liv Zingg lost 6-2, 6-4 to India’s Ankita Raina.<\/p>\n
Wrexham’s Megan Davies enjoyed having the chance to return to familiar surroundings on the opening day of the Lexus Wrexham Open.<\/p>\n
Handed a tough draw against Australian Lizette Cabrera, currently ranked world No.312 in the world having been as high as 119, Davies was beaten 6-1, 6-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany’s\u00a0Anna-Lena Friedsam, the No.1 seed in qualifying, progressed to the next round with a 6-1, 6-4 victory over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-812930","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\/812930","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=812930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}