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The Frenchwoman needed 2 hours, 51 minutes to
earn a 6-3, 6-7 (6), 7-6 (6) victory over the Czech Republic's
Kristyna Pliskova.
Pliskova staved off three match points while serving at 4-5 in
the third set, and she had a match point at 6-5 in the third-set
tiebreaker. However, Garcia won that point and the next two to
capture the match.
The tournament's third seed, the Czech Republic's Katerina
Siniakova, lost 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 to Ukraine's Anhelina Kalinina.
Serbia's Nina Stojanovic upset fourth-seeded Aliaksandra
Sasnovich of Belarus 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, and Croatia's Jana Fett
topped seventh-seeded Tatjana Maria of Germany 6-4, 1-6, 6-4,
and the United States' Bernarda Pera routed eighth-seeded Jelena
Ostapenko of Latvia 6-2, 6-1.
No. 1 seed Anastasija Sevastova of Latvia beat Russia's Varvara
Flink 6-2, 6-1.
Palermo Ladies Open
Top-seeded Kiki Bertens cruised to a 72-minute victory in her
opening match at Palmero, Italy, crushing Georgia's Ekaterine
Gorgodze 6-0, 6-1.
The only game Gorgodze managed to capture was the first of the
second set. Bertens saved the only two break points she faced
and converted six of her 16 break opportunities.
Second-seeded Alize Cornet of France rallied past Italy's
Martina Trevisan 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-1, and third-seeded Viktoria
Kuzmova of Slovakia topped Italy's Elisabetta Cocciaretto 6-4,
3-6, 6-3. Eighth-seeded Jil Teichmann of Switzerland won, but
sixth-seeded Laura Siegemund of Germany and seventh-seeded Sara
Sorribes Tormo of Spain lost.
--Field Level Media
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