2023-08-15 06:40:00
Mathieu Warnier, Media365, published on Tuesday August 15, 2023 at 08:40
While Elina Svitolina withdrew from the WTA tournament in Cincinnati, causing the repechage of Varvara Gracheva, Venus Williams was able to win in two sets once morest Veronika Kudermetova in two hung sets.
And three for Venus Williams! For her sixth tournament of the season on the WTA circuit, the American was able to snag a third success in eight games on Monday when she entered the fray in Cincinnati. While she remained on entry eliminations at Wimbledon once morest Elina Svitolina then in Montreal once morest Madison Keys, the former world number 1 was able to get the better of Veronika Kudermetova, seeded number 16, in two sets. Yet it was the Russian who got off to an excellent start in this encounter, taking her opponent’s serve twice to lead four games to one. The machine then jammed as Venus Williams raised her voice. Winning no less than five games in a row, it was on the commitment of Veronika Kudermetova that she won the first set. The second started in an almost identical way with the 16th player in the world who took the lead very early on, converting her first two break points to lead four games to nothing. Coming back to her senses, Venus Williams stood up to the Russian before reversing the trend once more. With the trifle of six games won consecutively and following dismissing two equalizing balls to one set everywhere, the 533rd world sealed the fate of the meeting on the commitment of Veronika Kudermetova and the third match point (6-4 , 7-5 in 2h03′). Qinwen Zheng or Aliaksandra Sasnovich will face her in the second round.
Gracheva can thank Svitolina
While only four meetings might be completed before the rain returned to Cincinnati, the most anticipated poster on Monday was surely that between Elina Svitolina and Caroline Wozniacki. However, beyond the postponement imposed by the bad weather on Ohio, the meeting will ultimately not take place. Indeed, the semi-finalist of the last Wimbledon opted for the precautionary principle and gave up participating in the WTA tournament in Cincinnati so as not to aggravate an injury in view of the US Open. “It’s an injury that dates from Wimbledon. I managed it pretty well, but the passage on the hard courts was not easy, confided the wife of Gaël Monfils in a message published on social networks. After Montreal, I did tests and the results were not good so the doctors advised me to take time to recover and do my best to be ready for the US Open. “A package that forced the organizers to pick up a player eliminated in the last qualifying round and it is the French Varvara Gracheva who will be Caroline Wozniacki’s opponent on Tuesday. On the Tricolor side, Caroline Garcia now knows that she will begin the defense of the title won last year once morest the American Sloane Stephens, who defeated the Italian Elisabetta Cocciaretto in two sets (7-5, 6-2 in 1h18 ‘) . Ons Jabeur, seeded number 5 will have for first opponent Anhelina Kalinina, who won once morest Lin Zhu (6-3, 7-5 in 1h38 ‘).
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