2024-01-08 06:29:50
Czech tennis player Barbora Krejčíková entered the new season with a defeat. The fourth seed saved two match points in the first round of the tournament in Adelaide, but eventually lost to Anna Kalinska of Russia 5-7, 6-3, 5-7.
Krejčíková erased a 1:3 loss in the first set, but then the loss of her serve decided at 5:5. In the second set, the world number 10 turned the score around from 0:2 and equalized, but in the decisive set, on the contrary, she did not maintain a two-game lead and, although she saved two match points, it was not enough for the third.
A BIG WIN FOR ANNA!
Anna Kalinskaya stuns World No.10 Barbora Krejcikova 7-5, 3-6, 7-5 in the first round of the Adelaide International, coming from a break down in the decider to prevail.
Remained calm even when her opponent raised her level following a slow start, superb win! pic.twitter.com/knnmyakOgE
— WTARussians (@WTArussians) January 8, 2024
The 28-year-old Krejčíková and Kalinská, who advanced to the main competition in Adelaide from the qualification, also lost the second match in her career. The year before last in Guadalajara, the 2021 Roland Garros winner lost to the currently 75th player in the world ranking in two sets.
Wimbledon champion Markéta Vondroušová will also appear in Adelaide, who will face Aljaksandra Sasnovičová from Belarus in the first round. Karolína Plíšková and Kateřina Siniaková will then face each other in the Czech duel.
Linda Fruhvirtová finished the game
Eighteen-year-old Czech tennis player Linda Fruhvirtová lost 3:6, 7:5 and 3:6 to Arantxa Rusová from the Netherlands in Hobart, and she finished in the first round at the second tournament of the new season.
After failing in the qualification final, Fruhvirtová only made it to the main competition as a so-called lucky loser. Just like last week in Auckland, however, she finished in the first round when she lost to the Russian in two and a half hours.
Although she was the first to break in the first set, she ended up losing her serve three times. In the second, Fruhvirtová quickly took a 3-0 lead and although she soon lost it, she forced a deciding set. But the world number 50 Russian succeeded in it once more.
Marie Bouzková, the fifth seed, will face Viktorija Golubicová from Switzerland in the first round in Hobart. Conversely, Linda Nosková withdrew from the tournament due to an injury to her left hip.
| Hobart Women’s Tournament (hard court, $267,082 endowment): |
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| Singles – 1st round: |
| Rusová (Netherlands) – L. FRUHVIRTOVA (CZE) 6:3, 5:7, 6:3 |
| Gračová (8-Fr.) – Stearnsová (USA) 7:6 (7:3), 3:6, 7:5 |
| Schmiedlová (SR) – Osoriová (Col.) 1:6, 7:6 (7:4), 7:5 |
| Adelaide Men’s and Women’s Tournament (Hard Court): |
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| Women ($922,573 grant): |
| Singles – 1st round: |
| Kalinská (Russia) – KREJČíKOVÁ (4-CR) 7:5, 3:6, 7:5 |
| Pavlyuchenkova (Russia) – Maia Haddadova (5-Brazil) 6:3, 6:4 |
| Kosťuková – Kalininová (both Ukr.) 7:6 (7:3), 6:1 |
| Bucsaová (Sp.) – Paoliniová (It.) 6:3, 6:3. |
| Doubles – 1st round: |
| SINIAKOVÁ, Sasnovičová (Czech Republic/Belarus) – Dabrowská, Routliffeová (Can./N.Zel.) 6:4, 2:6, 10:8. |
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