Revelation of the last Roland-Garros, where she reached the round of 16 thanks in particular to a success in the second round against the world n ° 8, Karolina Pliskova, Léolia Jeanjean discovers, in this month of June, for the first time in her career , lawn tennis.
At 26, the current 160th in the world had managed to get out of qualifying in Berlin this weekend, but she lost Tuesday, in the first round of the final table, against Maria Sakkari, n ° 6 at the WTA and seeded No. 2 in the tournament.
Heading to Wimbledon qualifiers
On the Steffi Graf Stadion, Berlin’s center court, the Frenchwoman was constantly under pressure from Sakkari’s heavy shots. On the service of the Greek, she could never be threatening, scoring only ten points over the whole match, including three on double faults.
Abused on almost all of her own service games, she saved ten break points but could not prevent a fairly dry defeat in the end (6-3, 6-2 in 1h22). Next meeting: qualifying for Wimbledon.
Maria Sakkari, she will face in the second round the Australian Daria Saville (ex Gavrilova), faller in the first round of the Swiss Jill Teichmann (6-7, 7-5, 6-2).
