Martincová – Osoriová 6: 3, 7: 5, Clijsters’ return did not work, she finished in the first round. Martincová goes on

Another return of the Belgian tennis player Kim Clijsters after a one-year break ended right after the first duel.

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Martincová, who moved up to the 53rd place in the rankings after the first quarterfinals at the WTA 500 tournament in Ostrava, played six games in a row in the first set at 3: 3. Thanks to that, she was aiming for a smooth victory, but the 19-year-old Colombian regained her lost break in the second set at 3: 5.

Immediately afterwards, Martincová had a match, and in the end she changed the second one after an hour and a half. The opponent, who is 17 places lower on the rankings, repaid the April defeat from Bogota. Osori helped her with 11 double mistakes. Martincová’s next opponent will be Slovinka Tamara Zidanšeková.

Bouzková, who is in 91st place in the rankings, entered the match with the player from the second world hundreds worse and lost the first set after three lost passes. The balanced second set had to be decided only by the tie break, which the Czech Republic won with luck.

In the decisive set, Bouzková managed to equalize from 0: 3 to 3: 3, but another lost service after a double mistake in the eighth game became fatal for her. Subsequently, although she developed two breaks, but did not use them, and the Japanese ended the long match with the second transformed match ball.

Twenty-two-year-old Vondroušová faced the only breakball she averted in the match with the quarterfinalist of this year’s Wimbledon Tomljanovicová. She herself picked up an opponent’s serve four times. In the second round, she will face Russia’s Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, who had a free draw as the four.

Clijsters ends

Former world number one Clijsters lost to Sie Shu-wei from Taiwan after almost two and a half hours 3: 6, 7: 5, 3: 6. For the 38-year-old Belgian woman who received a wild card from the organizers, this was the first match since last year’s US Open.

After him, the four-time grand slam winner underwent knee surgery in October, and in January, her sports plans were thwarted by coronavirus infection. In March, Clijsters was to play in Charleston and Miami, but withdrew because she did not yet feel fit.

Clijsters, who is raising three children, returned to tennis last year after a seven-year hiatus and lost all three matches she played. She had previously finished in 2007, but returned from her maternity leave to win three of her four grand slams. He has a total of 41 titles on his account.

Murray is confident on the court again

Former world top tennis player Andy Murray stepped victorious to the San Diego tournament. The 34-year-old Briton, who dropped to the top 100 after protracted hip problems and repeated operations, defeated the American Denis Kudla 6: 3, 6: 2 on Tuesday.

Three-time Grand Slam champion and two-time Olympic champion Murray was originally scheduled to play for Keia Nishikori in the opening round in San Diego. However, the injury of the former tennis player prevented the match of the former elite ten players.

Murray advanced to the quarterfinals at the Metz tournament last week, the first time since 2019. “It’s getting better,” he said after Tuesday’s move, recalling the US Open, where he played a five-hundredth battle with third-placed Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas. “It was there as a new start that I could beat even the best again,” he added.

In the second round in San Diego, Murray will face Nor Casper Ruud, a member of the winning European Laver Cup selection.