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New Straits Times
5 days ago
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- New Straits Times
Anna Bondar serves way into Hamburg semis
HAMBURG: Anna Bondar racked up 12 aces while outlasting top-seeded Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova 6-7 (1), 6-3, 7-6 (4) on Friday to reach the semifinals of the MSC Hamburg Ladies Open. The 28-year-old Hungarian committed just one double fault while Alexandrova had six against just one ace. It is the second career Top-20 win for Bondar, who will face Kaja Juvan of Slovenia in the semis. Juvan advanced with a 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-4 triumph over Spain's Leyre Romero Gormaz. No. 2 Dayana Yastremska of Ukraine was a 7-6 (1), 3-6, 6-2 winner over Hungary's Dalma Galfi and will face recent French Open semifinalist Lois Boisson as the No. 5 seed cruised to a 6-3, 6-3 victory over Bulgaria's Viktoriya Tomova. No. 2 seed Jaqueline Cristian of Romania won 75 per cent of her first-serve points (27 of 36) while posting a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Hungary's Panna Udvardy to reach the semifinals in Romania. Two other Romanians also advanced as No. 7 Irina-Camelia Begu outlasted Czech Anna Siskova 6-2, 3-6, 7-5 and Sorana Cirstea sailed to a 6-1, 6-4 victory over Maria Lourdes Carle of Argentina. Cristian and Begu will face off in one of the semis. No. 6 Jil Teichmann rallied past Swiss counterpart Simona Waltert 5-7, 6-1, 7-5. Teichmann will meet Cirstea in the other semifinal.
Yahoo
16-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Top seeds Alexandrova and Yastremska advance in Hamburg
Russian tennis player Ekaterina Alexandrova in action against Swiss Belinda Bencic during their women's singles round of 16 match on day eight of the 2025 Wimbledon Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club. Ben Whitley/PA Wire/dpa Top seed Ekaterina Alexandrova breezed into the second round of the Hamburg Open WTA tournament on Wednesday while two German players fell by the wayside. Russia's Alexandrova won the first seven games en route to a 6-0, 6-3 victory over Dutch qualifier Eva Vedder in 58 minutes. Advertisement Second seed Dayana Yastremska of Ukraine also reached the second round in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3 over Germany's Jule Niemeier. There was more pain for the hosts when third seed Tatjana Maria, a former Wimbledon semi-finalist who won the Queen's title last month, wasted a 5-3 lead in the second set as she went out 6-3, 7-6 (7-5) against Bulgarian Viktoriya Tomova. Slovakia's Kaya Juvan and Leyre Romero Gormaz of Spain are already through to the quarter-finals with second-round victories. Juvan rallied to beat American Louisa Chirico 4-6, 6-4, 6-1. Romero Gormaz ousted Dutch player Arantxa Rus, 6-2, 6-2.
San Francisco Chronicle
16-07-2025
- Sport
- San Francisco Chronicle
WTA Hamburg European Open Results
Wednesday At Am Rothenbaum Rot-Weiss Tennis Club Hamburg, Germany Purse: $275,094 Surface: Red clay HAMBURG, GERMANY (AP) _ Results Wednesday from Hamburg European Open at Am Rothenbaum Rot-Weiss Tennis Club (seedings in parentheses): Women's Singles Round of 32 Ekaterina Alexandrova (1), Russia, def. Eva Vedder, Netherlands, 6-0, 6-3. Women's Singles Round of 16 Leyre Romero Gormaz, Spain, def. Arantxa Rus, Netherlands, 6-2, 6-2. Quarterfinals Zheng Saisai, China, and Moyuka Uchijima (3), Japan, def. Tessa Johanna Brockmann and Sonja Zhenikhova, Germany, 7-6 (4), 6-3.
Arab News
07-07-2025
- Sport
- Arab News
Bencic downs Alexandrova to break Wimbledon 4th-round barrier
LONDON: Switzerland's Belinda Bencic reached her first Wimbledon quarterfinal in nine attempts on Monday, dismissing 18th-seeded Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova 7-6(4) 6-4 in just under two hours on a breezy Court One. For the latest updates, follow us @ArabNewsSport The Tokyo 2020 Olympic champion, 28, shed tears after she finally broke the fourth-round barrier 15 months after giving birth to her daughter Bella and said she felt very proud of herself. But she needed six match points to down 30-year-old Alexandrova, who just last month beat Bencic with the loss of only three games at the Den Bosch grasscourt tournament in the Netherlands. Bencic, who has been knocked out in the fourth round here three times before, said she turned the tide by being more courageous. 'I think I tried to be more brave. I had more matches under my belt and it turned out better than the last time I played her,' she said. 'I always got stuck in the fourth round. It was so important for me to break through to the quarterfinals,' she added. Alexandrova, who has also never passed the fourth round at the All England Club, blew hot and cold in the first set, dropping two service games before turning on the aggression, improving her second serve and fighting back to force a tiebreak. But Bencic, calm and businesslike, won four points in a row in the tiebreak and sealed the set after an hour and one minute when Alexandrova sent a backhand long. Bencic broke Alexandrova's serve in the eighth game of the second set but was unable to capitalize when serving for the match in a mammoth eight-deuce game that lasted some 15 minutes and during which the Russian saved five match points. But Bencic came fighting back on the Russian's serve with a forehand winner for a sixth match point, converting it when Alexandrova put a forehand long. The Swiss, ranked 35 but a former world number four, was one of nine mothers in the draw, but the only one to reach the fourth round. She gave birth in April last year and was back playing competitively within six months even reaching the fourth round of the Australian Open in January 2025. 'I'm really proud of myself and the whole team. We did an amazing job coming back,' she said. 'It's amazing to share the memories together as a family. I'm enjoying it more. I juggle it like every mum does.'
Al Arabiya
07-07-2025
- Sport
- Al Arabiya
'Props to the Moms': Bencic Reaches Her First Wimbledon Quarterfinal on Ninth Attempt
Belinda Bencic advanced to her first Wimbledon quarterfinal – 11 years after her All England Club debut – by beating 18th-seeded Ekaterina Alexandrova 7–6 (4) 6–4 on Monday. Bencic, who had lost in the fourth round on three previous occasions, failed to convert five match points while serving at 5–3 in the second set. But on the sixth one, Alexandrova sent a forehand long on No. 1 Court. 'For you guys, it was entertaining,' Bencic said about that marathon game at 5–3 where Alexandrova finally converted her fourth break point to stay in the match. 'For me, it was a big stress.' The 28-year-old Bencic's best result at a Grand Slam was reaching the semifinals at the 2019 US Open, where she also reached the quarters on two other occasions. The Tokyo Olympic champion, playing at Wimbledon for the ninth time, had not been into the last eight at any of the other three majors until now. 'I always got stuck in the fourth round (at Wimbledon),' Bencic said in an on-court interview. 'So it was so important for me today to be able to kind of break through to the quarterfinal.' Bencic missed last year's grass-court Grand Slam tournament while she was on maternity leave, having given birth to her first child – a daughter named Bella – in April 2024. She said traveling with a child on tour is still relatively easy while Bella is so young, but that she's spending a lot more time taking pictures when she's at tournaments. 'I'm juggling it like every mom does,' Bencic said. 'So props to the moms.' Bencic will play the winner between seventh-seeded Mirra Andreeva and No. 10 Emma Navarro, who were playing on Centre Court later. Navarro beat defending champion Barbora Krejcikova in the previous round, ensuring there will be a first-time winner of the women's tournament this year. Also later, No. 8 Iga Swiatek was playing Clara Tauson, and No. 19 Liudmila Samsonova faced Jessica Bouzas Maneiro.
