Pliskova’s eventful day in Berlin: Loses first set in tiebreak, wins 12 games in a row to advance

Czech Karolina Pliskova, the No 4 seed, had a rather interesting day at the office at the Berlin Open.

The former world No 1 lost the first set of her opening round match against Estonian veteran Kaia Kanepi 7-6 but then bounced back to sweep the next 12 games in a row.

By the end of the one hour and 44 minute contest, Pliskova had struck 17 aces sand saved all eight break point chances against her serve to come through 6-7 [5], 6-0, 6-0.

The current world No 7, who lost to Ash Barty in the final at Wimbledon last year, will meet either countrywoman Katerina Siniakova or Canada’s Bianca Andreescu in the second round.

Berlin WTA 500, first-round results (Rot-Weiss Tennis Club, grass, EUR 611.210)

• Daria Saville (Q) beat Jil Teichmann: 6-7 [2], 7-5, 6-2
• Daria Kasatkina (6) beat Anhelina Kalinina: 5-7, 6-3, 6-1
• Leolia Jeanjean vs. Maria Sakkari
• Maryna Zanevska vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
• Veronika Kudermetova vs. Aryna Sabalenka
• Tamara Zidansek vs. Liudmila Samsonova
• Anna Kalinskaya vs. Alize Cornet
• Belinda Bencic vs. Jule Niemeier
• Ann Li vs. Coco Gauff
• Andrea Petkovic vs. Garbine Muguruza
• Qinwen Zheng vs. Alycia Parks
• Ons Jabeur vs. Karolina Muchova
• Tamara Korpatsch vs. Xinyu Wang
• Anastasia Gasanova vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich
• Katerina Siniakova vs. Bianca Andreescu

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