Australia’s Daria Saville is thru to the ultimate qualifying spherical at a WTA 250 event in Hua Hin.
Hua Hin, Thailand, 27 January 2024 | Leigh Rogers
Two Australians – Daria Saville and Taylah Preston – have superior to the ultimate qualifying spherical on the Thailand Open.
Saville made a successful begin on the WTA 250 event, defeating France’s Amandine Hesse within the opening spherical.
“It’s at all times difficult to start out effectively after such an enormous Aussie summer season. I used to be fairly drained after the summer season and it felt like a little bit of a hangover,” the 29-year-old laughed.
“It’s an enormous reduction that I ended up successful this. It was a bit too shut in the long run.”
Saville, at the moment ranked No.152, is the eighth seed within the qualifying draw.
“I’ve obtained to undergo qualifying, that’s the actuality and that’s the place my rating is at,” Saville mentioned.
“That is my competitors proper now. Clearly the objective is to get again to a rating which is able to get me predominant draw entry to those tournaments.”
The previous world No.20 has additional motivation as effectively to increase her keep on the hard-court event even longer.
“I’m actually having fun with Thailand, particularly the foot massages and the meals,” she mentioned.
To earn a spot in the principle draw, Saville might want to beat world No. 148 Arianne Hartono from the Netherlands.
In the meantime, world No.201 Taylah Preston prompted an upset towards a higher-ranked compatriot.
The 18-year-old from Perth posted a 7-5 6-2 opening-round win towards world No.120 Olivia Gadecki.
It’s Preston’s fifth profession win at WTA stage and units up a closing qualifying spherical showdown with world No.158 Ekaterina Makarova.
Kimberly Birrell’s qualifying quest ended with a first-round loss to the in-form Anastasia Zakharova, who not too long ago made the Australian Open third spherical as a qualifier.
Aussies in motion – Hua Hin
RESULTS
Ladies’s qualifying singles, first spherical
Taylah Preston (AUS) d [2] Olivia Gadecki (AUS) 7-5 6-2
[8] Daria Saville (AUS) d Amandine Hesse (FRA) 6-3 7-6(4)
Anastasia Zakharova d [1] Kimberly Birrell (AUS) 6-7(4) 6-2 6-4
COMING UP
Ladies’s singles, first spherical
Arina Rodionova (AUS) v [6] Yuan Yue (CHN)
[WC] Ajla Tomljanovic (AUS) v Qualifier
Ladies’s qualifying singles, closing spherical
[8] Daria Saville (AUS) v [6] Arianne Hartono (NED)
Taylah Preston (AUS) v [9] Ekaterina Makarova
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