Play continues at the tournaments in Mexico and Tunisia, both on hard courts, and a brief roundup follows…
Today I came to the court with a lot of energy. For me, maybe, it was revenge, and tomorrow I must be ready for Renata. I have played twice against her this year. I know her very well. Martina Trevisan
Guadalajara | WTA 500 Guadalajara Open Akron presented by Santander
Martina Trevisan upset 8th-seeded Caroline Dolehide with a 6-3 6-2 win on Tuesday, avenging her loss to the American a year ago in the Guadalajara quarter-finals, and the Italian will now play home favourite Renata Zarazua on Wednesday.
“Today I came to the court with a lot of energy,” Trevisan said. “For me, maybe, it was revenge, and tomorrow I must be ready for Renata. I have played twice against her this year. I know her very well.”
Marie Bouzkova made the semi-finals in Guadalajara a year ago before losing to eventual champion Maria Sakkari from Greece.
On Tuesday, the Czech, seeded at 6, beat 19-year old Filipino qualifier Alexandra Eala, 6-2 6-2, to set up to a 2nd-round meeting with Lucrezia Stefanini from Italy, who got past another Mexican, wild-card Ana Sofía Sánchez, 6-0 3-6 6-2.
Stefanini, a qualifier, won the first 9 games to go up 6-0, 3-0, and then lost the next 7 games to go down 1-0 in the third set, before winning 6 of the next 7 to take the match, which featured Sánchez’s terrific scrambling that had the Mexican fans in raptures.
America’s Ashlyn Krueger defeated Tatjana Maria from Germany, 7-5 6-2, and will next face Poland’s Magdalena Frech after the 5th seed defeated Emina Bektas, also from the USA, 6-4 6-4, late in the night.
In other Day 2 results, Japan’s Ena Shibahara beat Kimberly Birrell from Australia, 6-4 7-6(4), to move into a 2nd-round match against No 4 seed Caroline Garcia from France, who received a bye.
Shibahara, a former Top 5 doubles player, continued her singles rise this season by coming back from 1-5 down in the second set against her fellow qualifier.
Canadian wild-card Marina Stakusic also advanced, with an impressive 6-2 6-4 win over Slovakia’s Anna Karolina Schmiedlova.
The rising 19-year-old powered past the Olympic semi-finalist on Tuesday night, and next will take on No 1 seed Jelena Ostapenko from Latvia in the 2nd-round on Wednesday.
In the doubles, the British pair of Samantha Murray Sharan & Eden Silva advanced to round 2 with a 6-3 6-3 win over Maria Kozyreva & Zarazua.
Britain’s Sonay Kartal upset 5th seed Jaqueline Cristian to reach the 2nd-round of the WTA 250 Jasmin Open in Tunisia
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Monastir | WTA 250 Jasmin Open by Lilas
In the 1st-round of the Jasmin Open Tunisia on Tuesday in Monastir, Tunisia, British qualifier Sonay Kartal, ranked No 151 in the world, upset Romanian 5th seed Jaqueline Cristian, ranked 74, in a 4-6 6-3 7-5 battle that lasted in 2 hours and 43 minutes, converting 8 of her 13 break-point opportunities, 61.5%, to her opponent’s 7 of 14.
Kartal, who scored her third Top 100 win of 2024, joins fellow Brit Lily Miyazaki in round 2, and will take on Japan’s Mai Hontana.
While top seeded Elise Mertens cruised to an easy win, another seed also exited, Nadia Podoroska, the No 4 from Argentina, who fell to Croatian qualifier Antonia Ruzic, 1-6 6-2 6-4, playing the first WTA main-draw match of her career.
Mertens, ranked No 32 in the world, posted an convincing 6-2 6-0 opening win over Anastasia Zakharova from Russia.
The Belgian converted 7 of 10 break-point chances, and won 69.2% of her first-serve points, 9 of 13, and 65.4% (17 of 26) on her second delivery.
Turkey’s Zeynep Sonmez, a qualifier, pulled off a 4-6 7-6(4) 6-3 come-back win over Rebeka Masarova from Spain after being just 2 points away from defeat at 5-6 down in the second set.
Sonmez lines up a meeting with Belgian Greet Minnen, the 6th seed, who found her way past Russian qualifier Maria Timofeeva, 6-0 3-6 6-2.
Croatia’s Jana Fett came from a set down to defeat Egyptian Mayar Sherif, 1-6 6-3 6-4, notching up her second Top 100 win of 2024, and she now will play Spain’s Sara Sorribes Tormo in round 2.
7th-seeded Lucia Bronzetti of Italy was an easy 6-3 6-2 winner over Hungarian Dalma Galfi, and will meet Ann Li next, the American having dispatched French wild-card Kristina Mladenovic, 6-2 6-1.
Slovakia’s Rebecca Sramkova escaped Elsa Jacquemot, a qualifier, from a set down, 3-6 7-5 6-3, her first win over the Frenchwoman in 3 meetings, and will take another in Clara Burel, the No 2 seed.
Yuliia Starodubtseva, a qualifier from Ukraine, eventually got past Suzan Lamens from the Netherlands, 6-2 3-6 6-4, to set up a 2nd-meeting with France’s Diane Parry, the 3rd seed.
A host of Brits featured in the doubles draw with varying degrees of success.
On Monday, Jodie Burrage, returning from a lengthy injury break, teamed up with Bronzetti and upset the No 1 seeds, Italy’s Camilla Rosatello & Kimberley Zimmerman from Belgium, 7-5 6-1, while Emily Appleton partnered with Poland’s Martyna Kubka and edged past Freya Christie & Yuliana Lizarazo from Colombia, 7-5(5) 3-6 [10-7].
Tuesday, however, saw the departure of Alicia Barnett and her partner, Isabelle Haverlag from the Netherlands, at the hands of a wild-card pairing of Algerian Ines Ibbou & Naima Karamoko from Switzerland, 6-4 6-3.
Maia Lumsden & Miyazaki also lost, to Aliona Falie & Elena Pridankina from Russia, 6-0 6-3.
