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San Francisco Chronicle
07-07-2025
- Sport
- San Francisco Chronicle
WTA Nordea Open Results
Monday At Bastad Tennis Stadium Bastad, Sweden Purse: $115,000 Surface: Red clay BASTAD, SWEDEN (AP) _ Results Monday from Nordea Open at Bastad Tennis Stadium (seedings in parentheses): Women's Singles Round of 32 Jule Niemeier, Germany, def. Nao Hibino, Japan, 6-1, 6-2. Leyre Romero Gormaz, Spain, def. Julia Grabher, Austria, 6-2, 6-3.
National Post
21-05-2025
- Sport
- National Post
Bianca Andreescu among Canadian casualties in French Open qualifying
Article content Bianca Andreescu's comeback hit a snag Wednesday when she was bounced from the second round of the French Open qualifying tournament. Article content The 17th seed from Mississauga, Ont., had match point against Japan's Nao Hibino up 5-3 in the second set. But she failed to convert, and Hibino came back for a 2-6, 7-6(5), 6-4 victory on the clay courts of Roland Garros that took two hours 31 minutes to complete. Article content Andreescu was one of three Canadians eliminated from qualifying Wednesday at the second Grand Slam of the tennis season. Article content Germany's Tamara Korpatsch cruised to a 6-2, 6-1 victory over 24th seed Marina Stakusic of Mississauga, and 10th seed Rebeka Masarova of Switzerland was a comfortable 6-0, 6-3 winner over Carson Branstine, a Californian who represents Canada internationally. Article content The 24-year-old Andreescu, a former world No. 4 and the 2019 U.S. Open champion, is back on the court after a nearly six-month layoff after she underwent emergency appendix surgery in February. She has had some success this year on clay — which she has said is not her strongest surface — including a run to the fourth round of the WTA 1000 Italian Open earlier this month. Article content Rising star Victoria Mboko of Toronto, the last Canadian alive in qualifying, plays a second-round match Thursday against Kathinka von Deichmann of Liechtenstein. Article content
