Slovenia OPEN: German qualifier Anna-Lena Friedsam saved 9 of 15 break points while posting a 7-5, 0-6, 6-3 upset of top-seeded Emma Raducanu in the second round of the Zavarovalnica Sava Portoroz in Slovenia. Follow Slovenia Open 2022 LIVE updates with InsideSport.IN
Slovenia OPEN: Anna-Lena Friedsam upsets Emma Raducanu in Slovenia – Check Highlights
Friedsam, 28, won the final three games of the third set to finish off the upset of the 2021 U.S. Open champion. Raducanu, a 19-year-old Brit, saved just two of seven break points while losing to a player ranked No. 95 in the world.
Reaching her first quarterfinal of the season 👏
Anna-Lena Friedsam takes out top seed Raducanu in Portoroz!#WTAPortoroz pic.twitter.com/8PPWZnD5Mr
— wta (@WTA) September 15, 2022
In other matches, France’s Diane Perry beat Russian Anastasia Potapova 7-6 (2), 6-4; Czech Katerina Siniakova beat Brit Jodie Burrage 7-5, 6-1, and Italy’s Jasmine Paolini edged Slovenia’s Kaja Juvan 5-7, 6-2, 7-6 (5).
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Nadia Podoroska of Argentina saved six of eight break points while outlasting Germany’s Tatjana Maria 3-6, 6-2, 7-6 (6) in second-round play in India.
The fourth-seeded Maria held a 4-0 lead in the third-set tiebreaker. But Podoroska won six of the next seven points to take the lead en route to winning the match.
In other matches, second-seeded Russian Varvara Gracheva swept Canada’s Carol Zhao 6-1, 7-5; third-seeded Magda Linette of Poland was a 6-2, 6-0 winner over Russian Oksana Selekhmeteva, and Katie Swan of Great Britain beat Russian Anastasia Gasanova 7-6 (5), 6-2.
Slovenia OPEN: Anna-Lena Friedsam upsets Emma Raducanu in Slovenia – Check Highlights
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