Tennis Day (1): Siniakova extended her winning streak, Machac and Forejtke at the tournament in France

In a separate article, we took a closer look at the indoor tournament in Ostrava. But of course it is played on courts all over the world. Kateřina Siniaková successfully entered the new tournament in Monastir, Tomáš Macháč and Jonáš Forejtek played their matches in France.

Siniakova’s progress

Kateřina Siniaková (53rd) took on France’s Chloe Paquet (112th) in yesterday’s match in the newly created 250 tournament in Monastir, Tunisia. In the first set, Siniakova, the winner from Portorož, lost her serve twice, but her opponent hesitated on her serve three times and that’s why the Czech player won the first set – 6::4.

In the second set, Siniakova set the pace of the game and at 4::0, 30::0 her opponent broke the match. She won her seventh match in a row and in the next round she will face the lower ranked American Claire Liu (73rd).

Katerina Siniakova (53rd) – Chloe Paquet (Fr., 112th) – 2::0 (6::4, 4::0 tiebreaker)

Several Czechs at the tournament in France

Several Czechs played the Challenger in Mouilleron Le Captif with a prize money of 67,960 euros. In the last qualifying round, David Poljak (432nd) challenged the home team’s Enzo Wallart (618th).After a bad first set, the 26-year-old Czech managed to turn the match around and gave his opponent a canary in the deciding set. In the first round he will face Dutchman Jelle Sels (173rd).

Tomáš Macháč (110th) started his match in the main phase. The native of Beroun had to play three sets with Russian Alexey Vatutin (268th). In the first set Machac had to turn the tide when he was one break behind. He managed to do that and in the eleventh game he managed to break his opponent’s serve for the second time – 7::5.

In the second set, however, the Czech player was not very successful, in the fourth game his opponent broke and then Vatutin was happy for the second time in the important eighth game – 2::6. But in the deciding set Machac gave his opponent no chance, converted two breaks and won 6::3.

His next opponent in the next round will be Arthur Cazaux (286th), who defeated Jonáš Forejtek (230th) in the first round of the tournament. The latter is not having a good season at all and he confirmed his bad form in France. Both sets were evenly matched, the first was decided by tiebreak and in the second one, after a tug of war, the home player was happy again, winning 2: 0 on sets.

1. singles round
Alexey Vatutin (RUS, 268th) – Tomas Machac (110th) 5-7, 6-2, 3-6
Arthur Cazaux (FRA, 286th) – Jonáš Forejtek(230th) 7-6(1), 6-4

Qualification final
Enzo Wallart (FRA, 618th) – David Poljak (432nd) 6-4, 3-6, 0-6

Sources: ATP, Livesport, WTA, Youtube