SAN JOSE: Reigning Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan misplaced to seventh seed Daria Kasatkina on Monday in a first-round match on the WTA San Jose hardcourt event.
World quantity 12 Kasatkina gained 11 of the final 12 video games to win 1-6, 6-2, 6-Zero in Rybakina’s debut match since profitable her first main title.
Kasatkina will subsequent play American Taylor Townsend, who eradicated Australian Storm Sanders 6-1, 6-Four on the US Open hardcourt tuneup occasion.
After 23rd-ranked Rybakina rolled by the opening set in 35 minutes, Kasatkina dominated the ultimate two.
American Madison Keys, the 2017 US Open runner-up, defeated China’s Zhang Shuai 6-4, 6-2 to guide a second-round date in opposition to Tunisian Ons Jabeur, who misplaced to Rybakina in final month’s Wimbledon remaining.
Japan’s Naomi Osaka, a four-time Grand Slam champion, and American sixth seed Coco Gauff would meet in a second-round matchup if each win their openers on Tuesday.
Former world primary Osaka will face China’s Zheng Qinwen whereas 18-year-old Gauff, this yr’s French Open runner-up, meets Anhelina Kalinina of Ukraine.
Osaka, whose rating has slid to 41st, has not performed since dropping her first-round match on the French Open. She had suffered a proper ankle harm in a tuneup occasion at Madrid.
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