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Anastasia Sevastova Photo: MIKE SEGAR / Reuters / Scanpix
Sevastova will meet with Croatian Peter Martich in the first round of the WTA 500 series in San Jose today in her first tournament after the Tokyo Olympics.
The game is planned in San Jose when it will be in Latvia at 8 p.m. Sevastova is 65th in the WTA rank, but her opponent is in 33rd place. Martiča sown with the sixth number in the tournament. From 2017 to 2019, both peers played three games with each other. In 2018, Sevastova was superior in the final of the Bucharest tournament, but in 2017 and 2019, Martiča won the third round of the Grand Slam tournaments in France and the USA.
Sevastova has arrived in San Jose from the Tokyo Olympic Games, where she suffered a painful loss in the first round. Martiča could qualify for the competition by rank, but chose not to play in Tokyo. In the WTA tour, the previous two competitions for them were the Wimbledon Championship. Sevastova lost in the third round, but Martiča’s path was one game shorter.
Sevastova spent her best tournament of the season in Miami, where she celebrated three victories on the court and fought to the quarterfinals. True, recently she lost the points earned for the title in the WTA “International” tournament in Jūrmala last year and experienced a slight drop in the ranking. If they fail to improve their positions, the Liepaja player will have to reckon with playing in the qualification.
Marticha played the longest this season in the tournament in Rome, where he reached the semifinals. Sevastova has won 21 of 36 games this year, but Martiča has 12 successes in 26 fights. Both tennis players have no titles since 2019, when Sevastova won her fourth trophy, but Martiča – the first and so far the only one.
In the second round, the winner of this match will compete with Magdie Linet from Poland (WTA 45) or Leslie Patinam-Kerkhov from the Netherlands (WTA 158). Latvia’s first racket Alona Ostapenko will not play in San Jose this week. The tournament in San Jose will take place on a hard surface and is one of the warm-up competitions for the US Open.
