The German tennis hope Ella Seidel left at the WTA tournament in Cincinnati in the round of 16.
The 20-year-old lost her exhausting round of 16 with the Frenchwoman Varvara Gracheva 6: 2, 1: 6, 1: 6 and, despite a good start, missed the first jump to the quarter-finals of a 1000 tournament. Above all, the heat was struggled with the Hamburg native.
Seidel dominated against the world rankings 103. the first sentence. As a result, the powerful right -handed woman gradually assumed the power: at temperatures above 30 degrees, Seidel also had to take a break in the second set. The exhausted newcomer no longer found solutions.
Gracheva, who increased significantly, now meets Magda Linette (Poland) or Weronika Kudermetowa.
Never in the main field at the US Open Stand Seidel
For Seidel, who surprised with victories against the world ranking Emma Navarro and McCartney Kessler, number 32 in the world, the tournament in the US state is still a success. The young Hanseatic, who is slowly but surely approaching the top 100, can confidently look at the last Grand Slam tournament of the year in New York (from August 24).
Never in the main field at the US Open Stand Seidel, that should change this year.
With Seidel, the last German
Seidel was the last representative of a German player quartet at the hard court tournament, which was endowed with $ 5.15 million. Wimbledon quarterfinalist Laura Siegemund (Metzingen) had already left the preparatory competition for the US Open at the start, the German number one Tatjana Maria (Bad Saulgau) and Eva Lys (Hamburg) failed in the second round.