Tennis
The first round of singles at the WTA tournament in Ostrava has been drawn. Who will the Czech tennis players meet?
The prestigious WTA 500 tournament in Ostrava starts on Monday. Among the 32 tennis players there are five Czech women in the pool, who can be joined in the main competition by 16-year-old qualifier Nikola Bartůňková. What singles duels will kick off the third edition of the event in Ostravar Arena.
The prestigious WTA 500 tournament in Ostrava starts on Monday. Among the 32 tennis players there are five Czech women in the pool, who can be joined in the main competition by 16-year-old qualifier Nikola Bartůňková. What singles duels will kick off the third edition of the event at the Ostravar Arena, which this year is called the AGEL Open?
Barbora Krejčíková will face the American Shelby Rogers, Tereza Martincová will face the Swiss Jil Teichmann. Karolína Muchová has a tougher draw, as she will face the seventh seed Beatriz Haddad Maia.
The other two representatives of domestic tennis, Petra Kvitova and Karolina Pliskova, will face successful players from the ongoing qualification. Both will learn the names of their opponents during Sunday afternoon.
Last year’s singles title will be defended by world number four Anett Kontaveit of Estonia. She has a free draw in the opening round, as does the biggest star of the Ostrava event, Poland’s Iga Świątek, the WTA No. 1 and three-time Grand Slam champion.
It is not until the eighth round that a pair of seeded participants will begin their journey through the tournament. They are Paula Badosa of Spain and last year’s beaten finalist Maria Sakkari of Greece.
AGEL Open 2022 will culminate on the hard court at the indoor venue in the Czech Republic’s third largest city on Sunday, October 9. Live coverage of the matches can be watched on O2 TV Sport and O2 TV Tennis.
The draw for the 1st round of singles at AGEL Open 2022
Iga Świąteková (1) – free draw
qualifier – Zhang Shuai
qualifier – qualifier
Karolina Muchova – Beatriz Haddad Maia (7)
Anett Kontaveit (3) – free draw
Jil Teichmann – Tereza Martincova
Viktoria Azarenka – Ekaterina Alexandrova
Emma Raducanu – Darya Kasatkina (5)
Belinda Bencic (6) – qualifier
Shelby Rogers – Barbora Krejcikova
qualifier – Karolina Pliskova
Maria Sakkari (4) – free draw
Jelena Ostapenko (8) – Aljaksandra Sasnovic
Madison Keys – Jelena Rybakina
Petra Kvitova – qualifier
Paula Badosa (2) – free draw
Source:: WTA, Tennis World
