Next surprise in the qualification for the WTA tournament in Hamburg! The 18-year-old German tennis talent Valentina Steiner has also won her second match at WTA level and thus surprisingly qualified for the main field in the Hanseatic city.
One day after her victory against Slovakian Renata Jamrichova, which ranks more than 380 places in front of Valentina Steiner as number 305 of the WTA world rankings, the Germans with Sada Nahimana from Burundi also defeated the number 231 of the ranking and thus booked her ticket for the main field.
After around 1:27 hours, Steiner used her first match ball to decide the game 6: 3 and 6: 2 in her favor.
Striking: Although the DTB talent brought only 55 percent of its first surcharges into the field, Steiner was only faced with three break balls, only once had to release her service game.
Steiner had last celebrated a minor success in early July when she moved into the quarter-finals at the W35 event in Stuttgart-Vaihingen, previously she reached the final in 2025 with the small W15 tournaments in Shymkent and Merzig. It was not foreseeable that the qualification for a WTA tournament would succeed.
Petkovic narrowly missed the main field
Anna Petkovic (number 1139 of the world rankings) also caused a stir. The 20-year-old German struck in the first qualifying round the much more classified Spaniard Carlota Martínez Círez (235) with 6: 4 and 6: 3.
In the final for the tournament participation, Petkovic of the Serb Aleksandra Krunic (363) then had to give up with 6: 4, 2: 6 and 6: 7. Petkovic fended off five match balls in the tiebreak, but ultimately pulled the shorter one.
Who Steiner will play in a WTA main field in her first game is not yet clear. In addition to Jule Niemeier, Nastasja Schunk, Tatjana Maria, Tamara Korpatsch, Eva Lys and Noma Noha Akugue and Carolin Werner, she is the eighth German who chases in Hamburg after the title.