While seeded players and Grand Slam winners were eliminated from the first day of the tournament, high-ranked singles seeds began to appear from this day, but the 1st seed Badoza and the 2nd seed made it to the top 4 of the “U.S. Open”. Three seeded players, including Garcia, disappear.
Badoza lost 3-6, 2-6 in straight sets to Jiang Qingwen (China) who is 19 years old and ranked 36th in the world. Jean, who scored seven aces, was outperformed in most of his service games, and was only able to break once. This is the 34th victory for Jan, who continues to grow rapidly this season. This is the second time this season that he has won the top 10 players, and in the “WTA 1000 Toronto” he defeated Onz Jabbar (Tunisia), who was ranked 5th in the world at the time.
Garcia, whose good fight in New York is still fresh in his memory, lost narrowly after a hard-fought battle with world No. 28 Jiang Shuai (China). Garcia and Jean, who have good results in both singles and doubles, played a good game from the beginning, and although Garcia won the first set after breaking early, the battle became even more chaotic after that. Jan was the first to break in the second set, but was caught up and failed to score a set point in the 10th game. Still win the tie break and make the set count 1-1. The final set went without a break chance for each other, and Garcia scored a return ace in the 10th game, which was 5-4, and grabbed match point. However, Jean was able to hold on with his serve and eventually entered a two-set tie-break. Garcia seemed to have pushed him in the rally when Jean was at 4-3, but Jean scored a forehand passing shot from a difficult position and made it 5-3 in the third mini-break. This point was the decisive factor, and Jean won a come-from-behind victory 4-6, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (5). After two-and-a-half hours of intense competition, Jean withdrew from the scheduled first-round doubles match with Beatriz Haddad and his Maia (Brazil).
Eighth-seeded Ryvakina lost to world No. 30 Lyudmila Samsonova (Russia) 2-6, 4-6. Ryvakina, who beat Simona Halep and Jabbar to win her first Grand Slam title at Wimbledon, has since lost her opening match in three of her six appearances.
Garbine Muguruza (Spain), the third seed, was the only seeded player who won the singles match that day. She created 11 break chances against 213th-ranked Despina Papamihail (Greece), who won her second tour title in the first round of the tournament, and converted four of them, 6-4, 6-. They advanced to the best 8 with 2 straight wins.
Also, on this day, following the day before, Japanese teams appeared in all three doubles matches. All pairs, including Kurumi Nara (Japan / Ando Securities) / Misaki Doi (Japan / Miki House), were defeated in the first match.
Eina Shibahara (Japan/Hashimoto Sogyo Holdings) is paired with Luisa Stephanie (Brazil) against the second-seeded Gabriela Dabrowski (Canada)/Juliana Olmos (Mexico) pair. The Shibahara/Stephanie pair, who lost the service game due to a series of double faults early in the match, caught up with them once, but due to Dabrowski’s performance, they allowed another break and lost the set. In the 2nd set, the opposing pair riding the waves fired winners such as return aces in succession to win 4 games in a row. The Shibahara/Stephanie team made a good serve in the fifth game and kept it, but they were unable to stop their opponent’s momentum and lost 3-6, 1-6.
In addition, Shibahara had taping on his shoulder in this match, but after the match he revealed that he felt pain in his back during the singles that was participating in the qualifying, and that he was taping but it did not heal.
Then, following the withdrawal of Jan/Adad Maia, the pair of Maii Hondama (Japan/Shimadzu Seisakusho)/Yuki Naito (Japan/Kameda Seika) suddenly participated in the first match of the doubles. She played against Fernanda Contreras (Mexico)/Papamihail, but due to lack of preparation she didn’t get a single chance to break and lost 1-6, 3-6 in straight sets. there is
(WOWOW Tennis World Editorial Department)
*The photo shows Garcia practicing at the Toray Pan Pacific Open venue.
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