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No. 2 seed Aryna Sabalenka, No. 4 Elena Rybakina and No. 6 Zheng Qinwen were among the top players making their entrée into the Madrid tournament on Friday.
Rybakina rolled, Sabalenka struggled through, and Zheng didn’t make it through before retiring with an injury.
Also, Danielle Collins made her European clay-court debut.
The No. 13 seed, who was unseeded when she won in Miami, is on a roll from her titles there on hard court, and Charleston on the green Har-Tru.
The last match on Manolo Santana was second on after an 8 p.m. night-session start. So it took until after 12:30 a.m. for Collins to eliminate Danilovic, 10-8 in the third-set tiebreak, on her fifth match point. Great drama.
(Madrid is 6 hours ahead of EDT)
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Mutua Madrid Open
Location: Madrid, Spain
Surface: Outdoor Clay
Category: WTA 1000 (Joint event with the ATP Tour)
Dates: April 23 – May 5, 2024
Prize money: $8,770,480
Draws: S96 – D32
Friday, April 26, 2024
Final results
Singles, second round
Injury retirements
Yulia Putintseva (KAZ) def [6] Zheng Qinwen (CHN) 75 20 retd
Upsets
Ashlyn Krueger (USA) def [14] Ekaterina Alexandrova (RUS) 63 63
[Q] Jaqueline Cristian (ROU) def [22] Barbora Krejcikova (CZE) 26 60 62
[Q] Sara Bejlek (CZE) def [24] Anna Kalinskaya (RUS) 61 64
Mayar Sherif (EGY) def [25] Marta Kostyuik (UKR) 62 75
[WC] Robin Montgomery (USA) def [26] Katie Boulter (GBR) 16 63 64
Mirra Andreeva (RUS) def [29] Linda Noskova (CZE) 46 63 63
Caroline Dolehide (USA) def [30] Anhelina Kalinina (UKR) 67 (6) 62 63
Seeds scuffling through
[2] Aryna Sabalenka (BLR) def. Magda Linette (POL) 64 36 63
[10] Daria Kasatkina (RUS) def. Cristina Bucsa (ESP) 57 76 (5) 63
[13] Danielle Collins (USA) def. [Q] Olga Danilovic (SRB) 46 64 76 (8)
Seeds rolling
[4] Elena Rybakina (KAZ) def. Lucia Bronzetti (ITA) 64 63
[7] Marketa Vondrousova (CZE) def [PR] Shelby Rogers (USA) 61 63
[12] Jasmine Paolini (ITA) def. [WC] Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva (AND) 60 61
[20] Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) def. [LL] Daria Saville (AUS) 61 64
[21] Caroline Garcia (FRA) def Wang Xinyu (CHN) 61 64
Doubles, first round
[4/WC] Coco Gauff / Taylor Townsend (USA) def. Anna Bondar (HUN) / Tereza Mihalikova (SVK) 63 36 [10-7]
[5] Lyudmyla Kichenok. (UKR) / Jelena Ostapenko (LAT) def.
Leylah Fernandez (CAN) / Arantxa Rus (NED) [ALT] Linda Noskova (CZE) / Ingrid Neel (EST) 61 75
[8] Cristina Bucsa / Sara Sorribes Tormo (ESP) def. Ingrid Gamarra Martins / Beatriz Haddad Maia (BRA) 64 16 [10-8]
Hao-Ching Chan (TPE) / Veronika Kudermetova (RUS) def. Guo Hanyu / Jiang Xinyu (CHN) 75 63
Lucia Bronzetti (ITA) / Liudmila Samsonova (RUS) def Shuko Aoyama (JPN) / Timea Babos (HUN) 75 76 (6)
Heather Watson (GBR) / Xu Yifan (CHN) def Anhelina Kalinina / Dayana Yastremska (UKR) 62 63
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