Siniak – Flipkens 6: 1, 6: 2, Siniak ruled, the Belgians did not give a chance. Martincová continues after the great battle

The 69th player of the ranking, Siniaková, played the role of paper favorite against Flipkens (92nd). Against her 11-year-old opponent, she showed an almost flawless performance, made only nine unforced mistakes, and after an hour, she turned the first backbone into the corner of the court with a beautiful backhand.

In the second round, Siniak will face the 125th player in the ranking, Margarita Gasparjanova from Russia, who surprisingly eliminated the seventh Frenchwoman, Kristina Mladenovic.

Martincová will also have a home opponent in the second round, who will challenge the highest-seeded Ekaterina Alexandrová. Today, the 26-year-old Czech tennis player managed a more than two-hour battle with Vögele and followed up on last week’s successful performance in Dubai, where she won four matches including qualifying and moved up to the 107th place in the rankings.

Korda defeated the former world number three in Acapulco

Twenty-year-old American tennis player Sebastian Korda defeated the former world number three Croatian Croatian Čilič in the first round of the tournament in Acapulco. The son of the former Czech representative Petr Korda won 7: 5, 6: 2 over the 2014 US Open champion. This year, Čilič was eliminated in the first round in the third of the four tournaments he played.

Sebastian Korda eliminated Marina Čilič

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To advance to the quarterfinals, Korda will play the equally old Canadian Félix Auger-Aliassim. The seventh seeded tennis player with the American Tennys Sandgren 6: 3, 7: 6 at the beginning of the ATP 500 tournament.

In January this year, Korda surprised by advancing to the finals in Delray Beach. Last month in Montpellier, he again attracted attention by winning over the former world number five Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.

Thiem lost his first match with a South African outsider in Dubai

Less than a week after the elimination in the quarterfinals in Doha, the Austrian tennis player Dominic Thiem dropped out at the tournament in Dubai even earlier, in the 2nd round. The world four, which had a free draw at the beginning, was unexpectedly defeated today 6: 3, 6: 4 by South African Lloyd Harris, who thus scored the biggest win of his career.

Twenty-four-year-old Harris lost just one point out of 30 after his first serve, scored 23 victories and eliminated last year’s US Open winner in 72 minutes. After claiming his first victory over an elite 20 player in Doha last week in a victory over Swiss Stan Wawrinka, he beat a Top 5 tennis player for the first time today. “I’m very happy. , which ranks up to 81st place in the ranking.

Thiem started in Dubai for the second time and dropped out again right after the first match. He is now facing a tournament break, as he will not be playing at a tournament in Miami from next week to prepare for the clay season.

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