WTA Adelaide: Garcia survives to make second round
Caroline Garcia defeated Taylah Preston 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 on Tuesday. She’ll face Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, the No 6 seed, in the next round
Caroline Garcia (Aflo/Panoramic)
Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia defeated Australian wildcard Taylah Preston 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 to reach the second round of the Adelaide Open at the Memorial Drive Tennis Park on Tuesday night.
Despite struggling on serve (first serve percentage of 46, broken four times), and failing to capitalise on 12 break points, Garcia managed to withstand the stern test presented by her up-and-coming Aussie opponent.
Garcia, ranked No 20, will play Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, the No 6 seed, next.
Adelaide WTA 500, other first-round results (Memorial Drive Tennis Park, hard, USD 922.573, most recent results first):
- Marketa Vondrousova vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich
- Magda Linette vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
- Claire Liu vs. Daria Kasatkina: tuesday
- Katerina Siniakova vs. Karolina Pliskova: tuesday
- Veronika Kudermetova (8) beat Ashlyn Krueger (LL): 6-2, 7-5
- Jelena Ostapenko beat Sorana Cirstea: 2-6, 6-2, 6-4
- Laura Siegemund beat Liudmila Samsonova (7): 6-7 (1), 6-4, 6-4
- Bernarda Pera (LL) beat Paula Badosa (WC): 3-6, 6-2, 6-3
- Ana Bogdan (LL) beat Katie Boulter (Q): 6-3, 6-4
- Anna Kalinskaya (Q) beat Barbora Krejcikova (4): 7-5, 3-6, 7-5
- Cristina Bucsa (LL) beat Jasmine Paolini: 6-3, 6-3
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Q) beat Beatriz Haddad Maia (5): 6-3, 6-4
- Marta Kostyuk beat Anhelina Kalinina: 7-6 (3), 6-1
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