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With a wild card in, we’ll see if Naomi Osaka can get a little bit of momentum this week before going to Wimbledon.
She faced the feisty Serb, Olga Danilovic. And she played well in victory.
Some quality qualifiers in Victoria Azarenka and Ajla Tomljanovic were in action, with Azarenka getting through to face Iga Swiatek on Tuesday.
And the good news was the return of the Cana-Kiwis, Gabriela Dabrowski and Erin Routliffe, who have been out as a pair since the week before Roland Garros. The bad news was that they lost a tight one in the first round.
In Eastbourne, only one seeded player in action – top seed and defending champion Daria Kasatkina. And she went out to Lulu Sun.
But there was also Ons Jabeur. And a fun doubles pairing in Barbora Krejcikova and Jelena Ostapenko – as it happens, two former Roland Garros champions with Krejickova being the defending Wimbledon champ as well.
(Bad Homburg is 6 hours ahead of EDT; Eastbourne is 5 hours ahead)
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Bad Homburg Open
Location: Bad Homburg, Germany
Surface: Grass
Category: WTA 500
Dates: June 22 – 28, 2025
Prize money: $1,064,510
Draws: S28 – D16
Monday, June 23, 2025
Final results
Singles, first round
Donna Vekic (CRO) def [6] Diana Shnaider (RUS) 63 63
[8] Ekaterina Alexandrova (RUS) def Belinda Bencic (SUI) 61 62
[Q] Victoria Azarenka (BLR) def. [WC] Laura Siegemund (GER) 62 62
Linda Noskova (CZE) def [Q] Ajla Tomljanovic (AUS) 63 62
[WC] Naomi Osaka (JPN) def [Q] Olga Danilovic (SRB) 76 (6) 76 (4)
[Q] Katerina Siniakova (CZE) def Liudmila Samsonova (RUS) [LL] Veronika Kudermetova (RUS) 76 (4) 75
Clara Tauson (DEN) def Magdalena Frech (POL) 67 (6) 63 63
Doubles, first round
Jiang Xinyu (CHN) / Fang-Hsien Wu (TPE) def [1] Gabriela Dabrowski / Erin Routliffe (NZL) 67 (7) 75 [10-8]
[2] Lyudmila Kichenok (UKR) / Ellen Perez (AUS) def Isabelle Haverlag (NED) / Ingrid Gamarra Martins (BRA) 76 (3) 57 [10-8]
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Lexus Eastbourne Open
Location: Eastbourne, England
Surface: Grass
Category: WTA 250 (Joint event with the ATP Tour)
Dates: June 22 – 28, 2025
Prize money: $1,064,510
Draws: S32 – D16
Monday, June 23, 2025
Final results
Singles, first round
Lulu Sun (NZL) def [1] Daria Kasatkina (AUS) 75 26 63
Anna Blinkova (RUS) def Marie Bouzkova (CZE) 64 26 63
[Q] Alexandra Eala (PHI) def Lucia Bronzetti (ITA) 60 61
Maya Joint (AUS) def Ons Jabeur (TUN) 75 62
[WC] Francesca Jones (GBR) def [Q] Greet Minnen (BEL) 64 75
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) def Viktoriya Tomova (BUL) 61 67 (5) 76 (7)
Doubles, first round
[2] Eri Hozumi (JPN) / Aldila Sutjiadi (INA) def. Kamilla Rakhimova (RUS) / Anna Siskova (CZE) 75 36 [10-8]
[4] Barbora Krejcikova (CZE) / Jelena Ostapenko (LAT) def Quinn Gleason (USA) / Oksana Kalashnikova (GEO) 64 63
[WC] Jodie Burrage / Sonay Kartal (GBR) def Hailey Baptiste / Peyton Stearns (USA) 63 36 [10-6]
[WC] Harriet Dart / Maia Lumsden (GBR) def Angelica Moratelli (ITA) / Sabrina Santamaria (USA) 63 62
Magali Kempen (BEL) / Tang Qianhui (CHN) def [WC] Heather Watson / Mingge Xu (GBR) 76 (8) 63
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