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Barbara Haas could not survive the first round of the WTA tennis tournament in Linz on her sixth attempt. Austria’s number one was dispatched this Wednesday at TipsArena by Russian Veronika Kudermetowa, who ranked fifth, with 6: 0.6: 0. This means that no Austrian is represented in the home event, which will be held for the 30th time. this year, and the ÖTV players had already suffered initial losses in doubles.
As in the two most recent appearances in the Ladies of Upper Austria, Haas faced Kiki Bertens (NED-2) 2: 6.1: 6 in 2018, against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS-9) 3: 6.3: 6 in 2019 – lost . “I’m just disappointed. It was a bad day at work, just a dark day,” said the world number 148. A double zero happened to him for the last time in his youth. “But something like this can always happen,” says Haas.
The 24-year-old tall Austrian never found her game, made many unforced errors and served poorly as well. So she made a total of eight double errors. After just 29 minutes, Kudermetowa used his second set ball. The second set was even shorter and ended at 23 minutes. “I couldn’t match my performance from my last game against them in Brisbane,” Haas said. Earlier in the year she had been able to put up much more resistance in the first qualifying round of the WTA Premier event in the first direct match at 5: 7.3: 6.
Russia’s next opponent
This time he only made 24 points in the whole game. The season finale of the world’s number 148. She must therefore – like that of her compatriot Julia Grabher, who had to give up on Tuesday due to an ankle injury against the Romanian Sorana Cirstea – as completely screwed up. “Now I will try to get the positive out of the season. Unfortunately, today there was not much positive. But certainly there are worse things in life, so you have to leave the church in town,” analyzed the local hero. The highlights of the season were his main competitions at the US Open and the French Open.
Kudermetowa was able to save energy for the other tasks on Wednesday. “The conditions here suit me very well. I tried to do my best and I think I did well,” said the 23-year-old ranked 46. together. The next opponent is the Dutch Arantxa Rus in the round of 16 on Thursday. With Czech Barbora Krejcikova and Belarusian Aliaksandra Sasnowitsch, two players have already reached the round of 16.
