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League 1: Dinamo – FCSB, Wednesday, 20:45, Digi Sport 1
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League 1: Sibiu – Gaz Metan Mediaș, Wednesday, 15:00, Digi Sport 1
Simona Halep – Laura Siegemund, LIVE Digi Sport 2, Gippsland Trophy
UPDATE, now 07:48: Simona Halep – Laura Siegemund 6-2, 3-3. Simona gives a strong response after the previous game and gives up a point.
UPDATE, now 07:45: Simona Halep – Laura Siegemund 6-2, 2-3. The athlete from Germany plays perfectly on her own serve and wins the match from scratch.
UPDATE, now 07:42: Simona Halep – Laura Siegemund 6-2, 2-2. Simona saves three break points and wins a hotly contested match.
UPDATE, now 07:34: Simona Halep – Laura Siegemund 6-2, 1-2. Simona immediately manages the rebreak, although she was led 15-40.
UPDATE, now 07:28: Simona Halep – Laura Siegemund 6-2, 0-2. The German game is visibly growing. Simona is betrayed by the second serve and gives up the first break of this match.
UPDATE, now 07:22: Simona Halep – Laura Siegemund 6-2, 0-1. Start on the right for the German in the second set.
UPDATE, now 07:14: Simona Halep – Laura Siegemund 6-2. SET Halep! Simona manages to save the German’s first break ball and wins her first set, in which she achieved a game on her own excellent serve, a percentage of 91% of balls won on the first serve.
UPDATE, now 07:09: Simona Halep – Laura Siegemund 5-2. The German gets the second game of the match, due to a shot with the flap that surprised Halep. Simona prepares to serve in the first set.
UPDATE, now 07:04: Simona Halep – Laura Siegemund 5-1. The Romanian manages a new game almost perfectly on her own serve and is close to winning the first set.
UPDATE, now 07:01: Simona Halep – Laura Siegemund 4-1. The German changes his strategy, tries to bring Halep more to the net and the tactic pays off. Simona had two break points, but eventually gave up the first game.
UPDATE, now 06:54: Simona Halep – Laura Siegemund 4-0. What a start for Simona! The Romanian does her job from scratch and heads with safe steps to access the first set.
UPDATE, now 06:51: Simona Halep – Laura Siegemund 3-0. Simona confirms the solid start of the game and achieves a new break.
UPDATE, now 06:46: Simona Halep – Laura Siegemund 2-0. The Romanian manages to do her job without any emotion, 40-15, the game ended with a perfect return shot.
UPDATE, now 06:43: Simona Halep – Laura Siegemund 1-0. A perfect start for Simona, who makes the breakup.
UPDATE, now 06:36: Starts the match. Laura Siegemund has her first job.
UPDATE, now 06:30. The two players went out onto the field to warm up. Simona Halep will start the match at work.
Match Simona Halep as Laura Siegemund is the third in the sand Maragert Court, after two more women’s singles matches, starting in class 02:00.
Siegemund (32 years old, 51 WTA), seeded number 16, easily beat the Australian on Tuesday Destanee Aiava, with 6-2, 6-2.
Halep (29 years) defeated her on Monday about the Russian Anastasia Potapova, with 6-4, 6-4. Siegemund had won on Monday against another Romanian, Monica Niculescu, in two sets, with 7-5, 6-4.
Simona Halep as Laura Siegemund H2H
The German has an advantage in direct matches with Halep (2-1), whom she defeated in two consecutive years in Stuttgart, in 2016 in the round of 16, with 6-1, 6-2, and in 2017, in the semifinals, with 6 -4, 7-5.
Simona’s only success came less than a month after the last defeat, 6-4, 6-4, in Rome, in the second round (2017).
Gippsland Trophy, LIVE on Digi Sport 2 | And Irina Begu is in the eighth
Also in the round of 16 of the Gippsland Trophy, Irina Begu, ranked 79 WTA, will play against the British Johanna konta, WTA 14th and seed No. 5, Wednesday night, 24 hours 03:00.
In the Gippsland Trophy, the Polish Iga Swiatek, reigning Roland Garros champion, needed three sets to beat the Slovenian Kaja Juvan 2-6, 6-2, 6-1, while the Japanese Naomi Osaka, second seed, won without appeal to the French Alize Cornet 6-2, 6-2.
I am surprised by the defeats suffered in the round of 16 by Arina Sabalenka, eliminated by Estonia’s Kaia Kanepi 6-1, 2-6, 6-1, and by Cori Gauff, defeated by Katie Boulter with 3-6, 7- 5, 6- 2.
Tags: Simona halep , Laura siegemund , gippsland trophy
