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Clara Tauson wanted lower than two hours to file the largest upset of first-round play on the Bad Homburg Open on Monday in Bad Homburg, Germany.
The Twenty fifth-ranked Tauson, who hails from Denmark, defeated Russian seventh seed Diana Shnaider 6-4, 6-4 in an hour and 45 minutes, changing 4 of 10 break factors and scoring six aces to Shnaider’s two. The victory snapped a seven-match dropping streak for Tauson, whose final victory got here in March on the BNP Paribas Open.
Shnaider, who received the Bad Homburg title in 2024, has misplaced back-to-back first-round matches on grass after Nikola Bartunkova of the Czech Republic knocked her out of the Berlin Tennis Open.
An ankle damage pressured Iva Jovic to withdraw from her scheduled match in opposition to China’s Xinyu Wang. Mexico’s Renata Zarazua took Jovic’s spot within the match, which Wang received 6-1, 6-2.
Japanese sixth seed Naomi Osaka rolled previous Poland’s Magdalena Frech 6-4, 6-1 in a match that was suspended on Sunday due to rain. Osaka, winner of 4 Grand Slam titles, received 60% (21 of 35) of her second-serve factors to Frech’s 21.4% (6 of 28).
Russia’s Anna Kalinskaya, China’s Qinwen Zheng, Romania’s Irina-Camelia Begu and Belgium’s Elise Mertens additionally superior Monday.
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Australia’s Ajla Tomljanovic shook up first-round play along with her 6-2, 6-7 (5), 7-5 win over eighth-seeded Elisabetta Cocciaretto of Italy on the Devonshire Park Lawn Tennis Club.
Tomljanovic had an enormous benefit on her first-serve factors — profitable 72.1% (44 of 61) to Cocciaretto’s 58.5% (31 of 53) in a match that lasted two hours and 45 minutes, regardless of Tomljanovic needing simply 36 minutes to take the primary set.
Colombia’s Emiliana Arango took benefit of a last-minute alternative when she stuffed in for Switzerland’s Viktorija Golubic, who withdrew with an damage. Arango, ranked No. 101, defeated Australia’s Maya Joint 7-6 (2), 6-4.
No. 3 seed Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia, No. 7 seed McCartney Kessler, Ukraine’s Anhelina Kalinina, the Czech Republic’s Tereza Valentova and Croatia’s Petra Marcinko additionally recorded first-round victories.
–Field Level Media