Caroline Garcia, a French tennis player, entered the second round of the 2023 Cleveland Open thanks to a straight set victory.
The top seed beat Czech Linda Fruhvirtova 6-3, 6-2 in just 66 minutes in the first round of the Cleveland Open. She may have missed the only break point opportunity she faced, but she converted four of the five break point opportunities she created.
The 2022 WTA Finals champion won 73 percent of her first-serve points, more than Noskova, who won 59 percent of her first-serve points.
Entering the last WTA tournament before the US Open started, Caroline Garcia pocketed four consecutive defeats.
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The world number 7 lost the opening match he played in the last three tournaments that took place in North America. First, he lost in Washington, then in Montreal, and then in Cincinnati last week.
Waiting for Garcia in the second round is the host tennis player, Peyton Stearns.
Stearns through the first round of the Cleveland Open against lucky loser from Italy, Martina Trevisan. The hosts were leading 6-1, 4-5 before Trevisan was forced to withdraw from the match.
In other action, third seed Veronika Kudermetova avoided defeat in her Cleveland Open opener when she was able to beat Argentine Nadia Podoroska 3-6 6-2 6-1.
For a place in the quarter-finals, Kudermetova will duel against Spaniard Sara Sorribes Tormo who is leading 6-2, 4-0 against Czech national Karolina Siniakova who withdrew from the match.
In other action, the fifth seed, Anhelina Kalinina appeared mighty when she slaughtered the Romanian tennis player, Ana Bogdan with impressive results 6-2, 6-2.
Throughout the match, Kalinina exerted quite a lot of pressure after she created 15 break point opportunities by converting five chances, while Bogdan was only able to take advantage of the only break point opportunity he created. He is also quite stable with his serve after he won 70 percent of the points from his first serve and 77 percent of the points from his second serve.
Waiting for tennis player from Ukraine, Kalinina in the second round is tennis player from Germany, Tatjana Maria or tennis player from France, Varvara Gracheva.
