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European League: CFR Cluj – KuPS Kuopio, Thursday, now 18:30, Digi Sport 1
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The league: Celtic vigo – Barcelona, Thursday, now 22:30, Digi Sport 1
Karolina Pliskova, number 4 in the WTA and second seed at Roland Garros, was defeated in the second round of the Paris Grand Slam by Jelena Ostapenko, the Latvian player who won the trophy on French clay in 2017, after a dramatic final with Simona Halep .
The 43rd player in the world won in one hour and 10 minutes, marking 6-4, 6-2. In direct duels between the two players, Pliskova continues to lead, 4-3, but the last two meetings were for the Latvian player. In the next round, Jelena Ostapenko will face the winner between Sloane Stephens (34 WTA) and Paula Badosa Gibert (87 WTA)
The 28-year-old Czech, a former world number one, never won a Grand Slam tournament, playing only one major final, in 2016 at the US Open.
Fewer and fewer obstacles on Simona Halep’s path to second Roland Garros trophy
Simona halep will play against Amanda Anisimova in the third round of Roland Garros 2020, an athlete to whom she lost, in the quarterfinals, in the last edition of the French Open. Last year’s showdown at Roland Garros was the first and so far the only direct match between Simona Halep and Amanda Anisimova. In 2019, the American won at the end of a match that lasted just one hour and 8 minutes against Simona, the title champion at the French Open at the time.
Simona Halep got rid of some of the best opponents en route to her second title at Roland Garros. In addition to Karolina Pliskova, Marketa Vondrousova (19 WTA), an athlete who was in the middle of Simona Halep’s image, was surprisingly eliminated from the opening round of Roland Garros.
Also, Serena Williams said goodbye tournament in Paris due to injury.
Tags: karolina pliskova , adversary simona halep , jelena ostapenko karolina pliskova , eliminating pliskova roland garros
