Berlin Open: Sakkari to face Saville in second round clash
Maria Sakkari beat French qualifier Leolia Jeanjean 6-3, 6-2 to move into the second round of the WTA 500 event in Berlin
Maria Sakkari at Wimbledon in 2021
Greek Maria Sakkari, the No 2 seed, advanced to the second round of the Berlin Open by beating French qualifier Leolia Jeanjean 6-3, 6-2 at Rot-Weiss Tennis Club on Tuesday.
Sakkari needed one hour and 24 minutes for the win, in which she did not face a single break pint against her own serve.
Ranked No 6 in the world, Sakkari will next meet Australian qualifier Daria Saville . who defeated Swiss Jil Teichmann 6-7 [2], 7-5, 6-2
Berlin WTA 500, first-round matches (Rot-Weiss Tennis Club, grass, EUR 611.210)
- Liudmila Samsonova beat Tamara Zidansek: 7-5, 6-1
- Xinyu Wang (Q) beat Tamara Korpatsch (Q): 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
- Aliaksandra Sasnovich beat Anastasia Gasanova (Q): 6-2, 4-6, 6-3
- Bianca Andreescu beat Katerina Siniakova: 6-4, 4-6, 6-4
- Karolina Pliskova (4) beat Kaia Kanepi: 6-7 [5], 6-0, 6-0
- Daria Saville beat Jil Teichmann: 6-7 [2], 7-5, 6-2
- Daria Kasatkina (6) beat Anhelina Kalinina: 5-7, 6-3, 6-1
- Ann Li vs. Coco Gauff
- Ons Jabeur vs. Karolina Muchova
- Qinwen Zheng vs. Alycia Parks
- Veronika Kudermetova vs. Aryna Sabalenka
- Andrea Petkovic vs. Garbine Muguruza
- Maryna Zanevska vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
- Anna Kalinskaya vs. Alize Cornet
- Belinda Bencic vs. Jule Niemeier
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