Monday’s Top 3 Tennis Matches: Kasatkina Kicks Off the Battle in Montreal
Daniil Salnikov August 7, 2023, 09:30 Moscow time Audio version: Your browser does not support the audio element.
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Program in summary:
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🎾 7:30 p.m.*: Victoria Azarenka (Belarus, 16) – Magda Lynette (Poland), Montreal, first round
*Game schedules are subject to change and will be confirmed
Intrigue: how will the former first racket in the world start the thousandth in Canada?
Former world number one and double Slam singles champion Victoria Azarenka begins her career in the Thousand Strings in Montreal with a match against Polish tennis player Magda Lynette. The tennis players have previously met three times, the score of personal meetings is 2-1 in favor of the Belarusian. She won in Miami 2016 and Indian Wells 2021, but this year in Miami, Lynette turned out to be stronger in a bitter fight. The winner of this pairing will play in the second round with the best tennis player of the duel Sloane Stevens – Angelina Kalinina.
victoria azarenko
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🎾 9:30 p.m.*: Alexander Bublik (Kazakhstan) v Hubert Hurkach (Poland, 15), Toronto, first round
*Game schedules are subject to change and will be confirmed
Mystery: Can Bublik break a nasty losing streak?
The Montreal Masters will begin with an interesting battle, in which Alexander Bublik will play against the Pole Hubert Hurkacz. The tennis players met six times, with the first match at Dubai 2020 going to a tennis player from Kazakhstan. However, all subsequent meetings have been taken by Hurkach: Wimbledon 2021, Dubai and Astana in 2022, United Cup and Marseille in 2023. Will Bublik be able to stop a nasty string of defeats himself?
Alejandro Bublik
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🎾 2:00*: Elise Mertens (Belgium) – Daria Kasatkina (Russia, 10), Montreal, first round
*Game schedules are subject to change and will be confirmed
Intrigue: will the Belgian take revenge for the defeat a week ago?
In the first round of the tournament in Montreal, old acquaintances Elise Mertens and Daria Kasatkina will fight. Given the 25,000 at Daytona 2015, the girls have already played seven times. The score of personal matches is 5-2 in favor of the Russian.
The last fight took place just a week ago – in Washington, the athletes also met in the first round. So Daria turned out to be stronger. Will the Belgian be able to take revenge? The winner of this pair in the second round will face the best in the match Anna Blinkova – Zhang Shuai.
Daria Kasatkina
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