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Independent Singapore
10 hours ago
- Sport
- Independent Singapore
‘I just played two games on that side' — Aryna Sabalenka frustrated as Rebeka Masarova cancels match due to slippery courts at Berlin Open
Photo: Sabalenka BERLIN, GERMANY: Top athlete Aryna Sabalenka did not hide her frustration when her match against Rebeka Masarova was first suspended, then cancelled at the Berlin Ladies Open due to complaints about poor lighting and a slippery court. The athlete won the first set with a scoreline of 6-2 when the umpire halted the match. Her opponent, Masarova, was the one who requested to stop the match, and it was granted the way she wanted. With this Sabalenka expressed angrily: ' You are stopping the match because she says that side is slippery? I just played two games on that side.' This news was made worse because the previous match between Liudmila Samsonova and Jessica Pegula took more than three hours to finish. Samsonova won against the American with a final scoreline of 6-7 (8/10), 7-5, 7-6 (7/5) in a match that featured two tie-breaks. Moreover, this incident happened days after Sabalenka lost to Gauff in the French Open final. Sabalenka described that match as 'the worst final' she'd ever played, and she remarked back then: 'I don't think she won the match because she played incredibly well, but because I made all those mistakes.' However, before the Berlin Open, Sabalenka admitted to Eurosport that her comments were unprofessional and declared: 'I let my emotions guide me. I absolutely regret what I said.' In a social media post made by The Tennis Letter, it stated: 'Sabalenka and Masarova's match in Berlin was stopped due to the court getting slippery… Rebeka wanted to stop play… Aryna wanted to continue..' Netizens expressed their thoughts and opinions on the post in the comments section: 'Showing favouritism to one player. Not good', 'It wasn't slippery….yet… The match was stopped because Masarova was down a set and there was a theoretical chance of it becoming slippery', Sabalenka pulling much drama lately. Went over the Gauff incident and now Masarova', and 'I mean, Rebeka was losing so.. we all know why she wanted to stop the match.' Aryna Sabalenka aims to win a WTA title on grass for the very first time. She has missed playing at Wimbledon in two of the last three years. However, it is evident that her powerful playing style compliments the complexities of the grass courts. Moreover, the Berlin Open, which is one of the world's oldest women's tennis competitions, has shifted from clay to grass courts back in 2021. Since then, it has been a warm-up event for Wimbledon, which usually takes place in June.
Al-Ahram Weekly
20 hours ago
- Sport
- Al-Ahram Weekly
Tennis: Sabalenka back to winning ways in Berlin - Omni sports
Twelve days after her bruising French Open final defeat, world number one Aryna Sabalenka returned to winning ways as she wrapped up her second round match against Rebeka Masarova in Berlin on Thursday 6-2, 7-6 (8/6) The match had been suspended after the first set on Wednesday and the Belarusian was made to work hard on the resumption as the 112th-ranked Swiss Masarova took her to the tiebreak. The win takes her into the quarter-finals as she looks to build up her grass court form ahead of Wimbledon which starts in 10 days time. The 27-year-old has won 20 titles but none of those has come on grass. She will face either 11th-ranked Kazakh Elena Rybakina or Czech doubles specialist Katerina Siniakova in a bid to reach the last four in Berlin for the first time in her career. In the first match of the day, 2023 Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova, currently ranked down at 164, needed two hours 20 minutes to overcome Russian 12th seed Diana Shnaider 6-3, 6-7 (3/7), 6-3. In the last eight she will face the Tunisian Ons Jabeur, the woman she beat in the Wimbledon final two years ago. (For more sports news and updates, follow Ahram Online Sports on Twitter at @AO_Sports and on Facebook at AhramOnlineSports.) Follow us on: Facebook Instagram Whatsapp Short link:
NDTV
21 hours ago
- Sport
- NDTV
Aryna Sabalenka Back To Winnings Ways In Berlin
Twelve days after her bruising French Open final defeat, world number one Aryna Sabalenka returned to winnings ways as she wrapped up her second round match against Rebeka Masarova in Berlin on Thursday 6-2, 7-6 (8/6). The match had been suspended after the first set on Wednesday and the Belarusian was made to work hard on the resumption as the 112th-ranked Swede Masarova took her to the tiebreak. The win takes her into the quarter-finals as she looks to build up her grass court form ahead of Wimbledon which starts in 10 days time. The 27-year-old has won 20 titles but none of those has come on grass. She will face either 11th-ranked Kazakh Elena Rybakina or Czech doubles specialist Katerina Siniakova in a bid to reach the last four in Berlin for the first time in her career. In the first match of the day, 2023 Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova, currently ranked down at 164, needed two hours 20 minutes to overcome Russian 12th seed Diana Shnaider 6-3, 6-7 (3/7), 6-3. In the last eight she will face the Tunisian Ons Jabeur, the woman she beat in the Wimbledon final two years ago. (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
The Hindu
21 hours ago
- Sport
- The Hindu
Berlin Open 2025: Top seed Sabalenka beats Masarova in straight sets, reaches quarterfinals
Aryna Sabalenka completed a 6-2, 7-6(6) win over Swiss Rebeka Masarova on Thursday to reach the Berlin Open quarterfinals, completing a match that had been suspended on Wednesday because of slippery conditions. The Belarusian, playing for the first time since losing to American Coco Gauff in the French Open final almost two weeks ago, was a set up on Wednesday when play was stopped after tournament officials said the court was getting too slippery with humidity rising after sunset. When the match resumed on Thursday, the 27-year-old was broken at the start of the second set and found herself 3-1 and 4-2 down. She kept her cool, however, and broke back with a fine volley to force a tiebreak. worth the wait 😊@SabalenkaA makes the last eight in Berlin with a win over Masarova 6-2, 7-6(6)!# — wta (@WTA) June 19, 2025 Sabalenka squandered two matchpoints before sealing her victory at her next opportunity when her opponent sank a simple mid-court forehand into the net. Less than two weeks before Wimbledon, the top seed will next face either Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan or Czech Katerina Siniakova. Fellow Czech Marketa Vondrousova, the 2023 Wimbledon champion, needed three sets and two hours and 20 minutes to break the resistance of Russia's Diana Shnaider. Vondrousova, who was 6-5 and 30-0 up in the second set, advanced with a 6-3, 6-7(3), 6-3 win and will face lucky loser Ons Jabeur, a two-time Wimbledon finalist, in the last eight.
