Irina-Camelia Begu a rezistat doar o ora pe teren in fata Annei Karolina Schmiedlova (castigatoarea de la BRD Bucharest Open), jucatoarea noastra fiind invinsa in doua seturi, scor 6-1, 6-3, in turul doi al turneului "Premier 5" de la Cincinnati. Au mai parasit competitia in aceeasi faza nume importante precum Caroline Wozniacki (favorita numarul 5) si Petra Kvitova (favorita patru).
Aflata pe locul 28 in ierarhia WTA, Begu va primi 60 de puncte WTA si 14.160 de dolari pentru parcursul de la Cincinnati.
Turul doi:
14-Elina Svitolina - Eugenie Bouchard 7-6(6) 7-5
Victoria Azarenka - 5-Caroline Wozniacki 6-0 6-4
7-Lucie Safarova - CoCo Vandeweghe 6-4 7-5
1-Serena Williams - Tsvetana Pironkova 7-5 6-3
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova - Yaroslava Shvedova 2-6 6-3 6-2
8-Karolina Pliskova - Timea Babos 6-4 7-5
Varvara Lepchenko - Mirjana Lucic-Baroni 7-5 6-4
Belinda Bencic - Flavia Pennetta 6-1 6-4
3-Simona Halep - Kristina Mladenovic 7-5 5-7 6-4
Jelena Jankovic - Madison Keys 7-6(4) 6-4
Karin Knapp - Daria Gavrilova 6-4 6-1
Caroline Garcia - 4-Petra Kvitova 7-5 4-6 6-2
Sloane Stephens - Mona Barthel 3-6 7-6(1) 6-2
15-Andrea Petkovic - Camila Giorgi 5-7 6-3 6-3
Anna Karolina Schmiedlova - Irina Begu 6-1 6-3.
Program optimi:
S.Williams (1) - K.Knapp
S.Stephens - A.Ivanovic (6)
C.Garcia - E.Svitolina (14)
B.Bencic - L.Safarova (7)
V.Azarenka - A.Pavlyuchenkova
A.Petkovic (15) - S.Halep (3)
Ka.Pliskova (8) - J.Jankovic
A.K.Schmiedlová - V.Lepchenko.
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