After the elimination of all German tennis players, the grass tournament in Bad Homburg also ended early for last year’s finalist Bianca Andreescu.
The Canadian US Open winner from 2019 missed out on the quarter-finals with a clear 3: 6, 2: 6 against Rebeka Masarova from Spain. The day before, Andreescu had had her left wrist treated when she won three sets at the start of the tournament.
“My wrist definitely affected me. I have to say that unfortunately I wasn’t at 100 percent,” said Andreescu. “I think that the wrist can get better with a few days off.”
Co-favorite Liudmila Samsonova, on the other hand, kept her chance for the title. The second seeded Russian defeated the Czech Linda Noskova 6:4, 6:7 (4:7), 6:3. With that, the world number 15 moved. reached the quarterfinals, where she meets the Czech Katerina Siniakova or her compatriot Yevgenia Rodina.
Tennis: Top favorite Iga Swiatek required
Varvara Gracheva, who starts for France, and the American Emma Navarro are also in the top eight. Top favorite of the Bad Homburg Open is the Polish world number one Iga Swiatek. The four-time Grand Slam tournament winner is on Wednesday with her round of 16.
Swiatek is playing her only preparatory tournament on the way to Wimbledon in Bad Homburg. The third Grand Slam tournament of the season begins on Monday. All of the German participants in the Bad Homburg event, which was endowed with almost 260,000 US dollars, lost in round one.