Hungarian Open: Seidel reaches second round
Ella Seidel benefited from the abandonment of Moyuka Uchijima (6-1, 1-0) on Tuesday afternoon. She’ll face the winner of the match between Serb Olga Danilovic and Hungarian Anna Bondar in the next round
German lucky loser Ella Seidel moved into the second round of the Hungarian Open when Japanese Moyuka Uchijima, the No 7 seed, retired on Tuesday afternoon at Római Tennis Academy in Budapest.
Seidel, ranked No 166, led 6-1, 1-0 when Uchijima, ranked No 69, pulled out on Tuesday at Római Tennis Academy in Budapest.
The 19-year-old German will play the winner of the match between Serb Olga Danilovic and Hungarian Anna Bondar next.
Budapest WTA 250, other first-round results (Római Tennis Academy, clay, USD 267.082, most recent results first):
- Olga Danilovic vs. Anna Bondar
- Xiyu Wang vs. Anca Todoni
- Diana Shnaider (1) beat Fanny Stollar (WC): 6-3, 3-6, 6-4
- Tamara Korpatsch vs. Bernarda Pera: tuesday
- Eva Lys beat Nadia Podoroska (6): 6-3, 6-0
- Rebecca Sramkova beat Miriam Bulgaru (Q): 6-3, 4-6, 6-4
- Ekaterina Makarova (Q) beat Timea Babos (WC): 6-3, 6-1
- Aliaksandra Sasnovich beat Viktoriya Tomova (2): 2-6, 6-2, 6-4
- Maria Timofeeva beat Simona Waltert (Q): 7-5, 7-6 (3)
- Sara Sorribes Tormo (4) beat Gergana Topalova (Q): 4-6, 6-3, 7-5
- Anna Karolina Schmiedlova beat Kamilla Rakhimova: 3-6, 6-4, 6-0
- Rebeka Masarova beat Natalia Szabanin (WC): 6-2, 6-3
- Carole Monnet (Q) beat Amarissa Toth (Q): 6-1, 6-1
- Suzan Lamens beat Varvara Gracheva (8): 6-3, 6-0
- Elina Avanesyan beat Magdalena Frech (5): 7-6 (5), 6-4
