Australian Ellen Perez defeats world No.101 Tamara Korpatsch to qualify at a WTA 500 match in China.
Zhengzhou, China, 9 October 2023 | Leigh Rogers
Zhengzhou, China
Ellen Perez has certified for the singles occasion at a WTA 500 match in Zhengzhou.
The 27-year-old Australian secured her spot in the primary draw with a 6-4 5-7 6-4 victory in opposition to world No.101 Tamara Korpatsch within the ultimate qualifying spherical.
“I felt like I did a superb job to type of get the higher of her within the first set,” Perez stated after scoring her greatest singles win in a yr.
“I received a 4-1 lead within the second after which she began to play very well. I believe she performed a few of her greatest tennis when she was behind.
“The perfect factor I believe I did was not panic after I misplaced that second set and simply type of went again to what I knew I used to be doing nicely and was working. It received actually shut ultimately, however I’m actually proud of the best way I fought and taking part in the best way I wished to play.”
Perez, who’s at present ranked No.456 in singles and No.25 in doubles, described qualifying as “satisfying”.
It’s Perez’s greatest singles victory ranking-wise since October 2022 and marks the primary time she has gained back-to-back singles matches since Could.
“I’ve all the time believed that I may play actually good singles, it’s simply the case that my doubles received so excessive that my singles type of needed to take just a little little bit of a again seat,” she stated.
“Once you’re taking part in a variety of doubles and also you’re not getting a variety of alternatives in singles, you type of really feel such as you lose that contact and really feel for it just a little bit. So it’s been a battle however anytime I do get the prospect, I like to play singles.”
Perez now faces world No.28 Anhelina Kalinina within the opening spherical.
Aussies in motion – Zhengzhou
RESULTS
Girls’s qualifying singles, ultimate spherical
Ellen Perez (AUS) d [6] Tamara Korpatsch (GER) 6-4 5-7 6-4
COMING UP
Girls’s singles, first spherical
[Q] Ellen Perez (AUS) v Anhelina Kalinina (UKR)
Girls’s doubles, first spherical
Ellen Perez (AUS)/Nicole Melichar-Martinez (USA) v Timea Babos (HUN)/Lyudmyla Kichenok (UKR)
Hong Kong
Daria Saville has superior to the ultimate qualifying spherical at a WTA 250 match in Hong Kong.
The 29-year-old Australian, who’s at present ranked No.211 and rebuilding her rating after present process knee surgical procedure final yr, scored a 6-2 6-2 win in opposition to Chinese language Taipei’s Tsao Chia Yi.
This units up a final-round showdown with Slovenian Dalila Jakupovic.
Saville is trying to be part of compatriot Priscilla Hon in the primary draw.
Aussies in motion – Hong Kong
RESULTS
Girls’s qualifying singles, first spherical
[5] Daria Saville (AUS) d Tsao Chia Yi (TPE) 6-2 6-2
COMING UP
Girls’s qualifying singles, ultimate spherical
[5] Daria Saville (AUS) v [3] Dalila Jakupovic (SLO)
Girls’s singles, first spherical
Priscilla Hon (AUS) v [WC] Eudice Chong (HKG)
Seoul, Korea
Australia’s top-ranked girl, Kimberly Birrell, is contesting a WTA 250 match in Seoul this week.
The world No.102 faces American qualifier Sachia Vickery within the opening spherical.
Aussies in motion – Seoul
COMING UP
Girls’s singles, first spherical
Kimberly Birrell (AUS) v [Q] Sachia Vickery (USA)
Girls’s doubles, first spherical
Olivia Tjandramulia (AUS)/Arianne Hartono (NED) v [WC] Ji-hee Choi (KOR)/Sohyun Park (KOR)
Kimberly Birrell (AUS)/Emina Bektas (USA) v Na Lae Han (KOR)/Su Jeong Jang (KOR)
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