Tennis player Petra Kvitová entered the tournament in Indian Wells, after which she will end the season, winning the second round 6: 2, 6: 2 over the Dutch Arantx Rusová. The next rival of the seventh deployed Czech will be the former world number one Viktoria Azarenková from Belarus in the California desert.
Czech tennis player Petra Kvitová serves in the 2nd round of the tournament in Indian Wells.
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Thirty-one-year-old Kvitová did not lose the serve in the first mutual match with Rusová, a year younger, and after the first service she won 21 of 23 balls. She took the 68th player rankings twice in each set and advanced to the third round in an hour and a quarter.
The first performance on the WTA Tour after the sensational triumph at the US Open did not come from the British Emma Raducanu, who lost 2: 6, 4: 6 to the Belarusian Aleksander Sasnovičová. “It was only my third WTA tournament this year. I’m still very inexperienced, I don’t want to rush things and push myself,” said the 18-year-old tennis player, who won the grand slam tournament in New York a month ago as the first player in qualifying.
The elite Czech couple Barbora Krejčíková and Kateřína Siniaková succeeded in the doubles. Tournament leaders beat Viktorija Golubicová and Jil Teichmannová 10: 2 in the supertiebreak, with whom they can face a month in a match against Switzerland in the group of the final tournament of the Billie Jean King Cup in Prague. Even due to the approaching culmination of the team competition at the O2 arena, the Swiss number one, Olympic winner Belinda Bencicová, resigned from the tournament for health reasons before the first match in Indian Wells.
| Indian Wells Men’s & Women’s Tennis Tournament (Hard): |
| Men ($ 8,359,455 grant): |
| Singles – Round 1: |
| Anderson (JAR) – Thompson (Austr.) 7:5, 6:2 |
| Struff (DEU) – Galan (COL) 7: 6 (7: 4), 6: 3 |
| Ramos (Šp.) – Musetti (It.) 6:1, 6:3 |
| Nakashima (USA) –Coria (Arg.) 6: 3, 6: 2 |
| Millman (Austr.) – Sock (USA) 7:5, 4:6, 6:3 |
| Mager (It.) – Fucsovics (Maď.) 1: 6, 6: 3, 6: 2 |
| A. Murray (Brit.) – Mannarino (Fr.) 6:3, 6:2 |
| Brooksby (USA) – Ilkel (Tur.) 7: 6 (7: 5), 6: |
| Eubanks (USA) – Gerasimov (BEL) 6: 3, 6: 3 |
| Gómez (ECU) – Bagnis (ARG) 6: 3, 6: 1 |
| Vukic (Austr.) – Andújar (Šp.) 7: 5, 6: 4 |
| Martínez (Šp.) – Marcora (It.) 6: 4, 6: 0 |
| Women ($ 8,150,470 grant): |
| Singles – Round 2: |
| Paolini (It.) – Mertens (14-Belg.) 3: 6, 6: 4, 6: 4 |
| Azarenková (27-BEL) – Linette (POL) 7: 5, 3: 0 ret. |
| Kvitová (7-CZ) – Rusová (Niz.) 6: 2, 6: 2 |
| Pavlyuchenko (9-RUS) – Keys (USA) 6: 3, 6: 1 |
| Putincevová (KAZ) – Rybakinová (13-Kaz.) 6: 2, 7: 6 (7: 5) |
| Sasnovicova (BEL) – Raducanu (17-Brit.) 6: 2, 6: 4 |
| Pegulaová (19-USA) – Stephensová (USA) 6:2, 6:3 |
| Fernandez (23-CAN) – Cornet (Fr.) 6: 2, 6: 3 |
| Begu (ROU) – Teichmann (31-Switzerland) 7: 5, 6: 1 |
| Rogers (USA) – Kucova (SR) 6: 2, 6: 2 |
| Doubles – Round 2: |
| Krejcikova, Siniakova (1-CR) – Golubicova, Teichmannova (Sv.) 6: 7 (6: 8), 6: 2, 10: 2 |
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