June 23 – Clara Tauson needed less than two hours to record the biggest upset of first-round play at the Bad Homburg Open on Monday in Bad Homburg, \u200bGermany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 25th-ranked Tauson, who hails from Denmark, defeated Russian seventh seed \u200cDiana Shnaider 6-4, 6-4 in an hour and 45 minutes, converting four of 10 break points and scoring six aces to Shnaider’s two. The victory snapped a seven-match losing streak \u200bfor Tauson, whose last victory came in March at the BNP Paribas \u200bOpen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shnaider, who won the Bad Homburg title in 2024, has lost \u2060back-to-back first-round matches on grass after Nikola Bartunkova of the Czech Republic knocked \u200bher out of the Berlin Tennis Open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An ankle injury forced Iva Jovic to \u200bwithdraw from her scheduled match against China’s Xinyu Wang. Mexico’s Renata Zarazua took Jovic’s spot in the match, which Wang won 6-1, 6-2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Japanese sixth seed Naomi Osaka rolled past Poland’s Magdalena \u200bFrech 6-4, 6-1 in a match that was suspended on Sunday because \u200bof rain. Osaka, winner of four Grand Slam titles, won 60% (21 of 35) of her second-serve \u200cpoints \u2060to Frech’s 21.4% (6 of 28).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Russia’s Anna Kalinskaya, China’s Qinwen Zheng, Romania’s Irina-Camelia Begu and Belgium’s Elise Mertens also advanced Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Australia’s Ajla Tomljanovic shook up first-round play with her 6-2, 6-7 (5), 7-5 win over eighth-seeded Elisabetta Cocciaretto of Italy \u200bat the Devonshire \u200bPark Lawn Tennis \u2060Club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tomljanovic had a big advantage on her first-serve points — winning 72.1% (44 of 61) to Cocciaretto’s 58.5% (31 of 53) in a \u200bmatch that lasted two hours and 45 minutes, despite Tomljanovic \u200bneeding just \u206036 minutes to take the first set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Colombia’s Emiliana Arango took advantage of a last-minute opportunity when she filled in for Switzerland’s Viktorija Golubic, who withdrew with an \u2060injury. Arango, \u200branked No. 101, defeated Australia’s Maya Joint 7-6 (2), \u200b6-4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No. 3 seed Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia, No. 7 seed McCartney Kessler, Ukraine’s Anhelina Kalinina, the \u200bCzech Republic’s Tereza Valentova and Croatia’s Petra Marcinko also recorded first-round victories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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