Thursday 3 May 2018

Siniakova d Alexandrova in 3 in Prague

Second round matches were played on Wednesday:


Prague

All matches were decided in straight sets except that won by Katerina Siniakova.  The eighth seed defeated a valiant Ekaterina Alexandrova and earned a quarter final spot.

Very little separated the pair in the opening set - Siniakova won 88% of points on first serve and Alexandrova 92% on hers.  Both relied too much on their second serve, but only one break point resulted for the entire set.

Siniakova was the beneficiary, and she converted it to take the lead 6-4.

The second set saw Alexandrova serve and return at a level slightly above Siniakova, and it was reflected in the number of points won and number of break chances created.  Two of the eight break points were converted by Alexandrova, enough to cover her one dropped serve, and she levelled at 4-6 6-3.


The decider was almost as even as the first set, with the eighth seed marginally ahead in general play.  Each had two chances to break serve, Siniakova using one to force her way to victory 6-4 3-6 6-3


Of the other second round matches, all remaining seeds won, booking their quarter final places in the process

Kristyna Pliskova defeated Qiang Wang 6-2 7-6(3)

She will play Mihaela Buzarnescu in the quarter finals 

Mihaela Buzarnescu (7) defeated qualifier Antonia Lottner 6-0 7-6(7)

Samantha Stosur defeated Denisa Allertova 6-4 6-4

She will play Camila Giorgi in the quarter finals 

Camila Giorgi defeated lucky loser in qualifying Tamara Korpatsch 6-4 6-2

Shuai Zhang (6) defeated qualifier Elena-Gabriela  Ruse 6-4 6-4

She will play Jasmine Paolini in the quarter finals 

Lucky loser in qualifying Jasmine Paolini defeated Anna Karolina Schmiedlova 6-4 6-1

Petra Kvitova (2) defeated Natalia Vikhlyantseva 6-3 6-1

She will play Katerina Siniakova in the all Czech quarter final


Rabat 

As a consequence of second round matches these are the quarter final match ups 

Elise Mertens (1) v Sara Errani

Wildcard Katarina Zavatska v Su-Wei Hsieh (8)

Jana Fett v Ajla  Tomljanovic 

Aleksandra Krunic (7) v qualifier Paula Badosa Gibert 


Estoril

Kyle Edmund (3) defeated wildcard Alex de Minaur 6-2 7-5

He will play Joao Sousa in the quarter finals 

Joao Sousa defeated wildcard Pedro Sousa 4-6 7-6(1) 7-5

Qualifier Simone Bolelli defeated Federico Delbonis 3-6 7-5 6-2

He will play Frances Tiafoe in the quarter finals 

Frances Tiafoe defeated Gilles Muller (4) 6-4 7-5


Munich

Sascha Zverev (1) defeated fellow German and wildcard Yannick Hanfmann 6-7(12) 6-4 6-2

He will play another countryman Jan-Lennard Struff in the quarter finals 

Jan-Lennard Struff defeated Yannick Maden 6-3 3-6 6-3

Hyeon Chung (4) defeated wildcard Matthias Bachinger 6-1 6-1

He will play Martin Klizan in the quarter finals 

Qualifier Martin Klizan defeated Mirza Basic 4-6 6-3 7-5


Istanbul 

Laslo Djere defeated Andreas Seppi (3) 6-3 6-7(4) 6-3

He will play Paolo Lorenzi in the quarter finals 

Paolo Lorenzi (5) defeated qualifier Marco Trungelliti 6-2 7-6(5)

Rogerio Dutra Silva defeated Viktor Troicki (6) 6-2 6-3

He will play Taro Daniel in the quarter finals 

Taro Daniel defeated Aljaz Bedene (4) 6-2 6-2

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