WTA roundup: Katarzyna Kawa keeps Polish hope alive in Gdynia

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[July 23, 2021]    Katarzyna Kawa kept a home-soil run alive when she upset No. 3 seed Irina-Camelia Begu of Romania 6-2, 6-4 in the second round Thursday at the BNP Paribas Poland Open in Gdynia.

Romania's Irina-Camelia Begu during her first round match against Serena Williams of the U.S. REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier/File Photo


Kawa, ranked No. 143 in the world, had little trouble as she converted five of nine break points and won 64 percent of her first-serve points (27 of 42) against Begu to advance to the quarterfinals.

Another seeded player went down when Ukraine's Kateryna Kozlova beat No. 6 seed Aliaksandra Sasnovich of Belarus 2-6, 6-4, 6-3. No. 9 seed Nuria Parrizas Diaz of Spain, Maryna Zanevska of Belgium and Ekaterine Gorgodze of Georgia also won.

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Top seed Danielle Collins tallied eight aces and converted six of eight break points to defeat Australia's Maddison Inglis 6-4, 6-1, and move into the quarters in Palermo, Italy.

The American will meet Australian No. 7 seed Astra Sharma after Sharma got by Russia's Natalia Vikhlyantseva 6-4, 7-5.

No. 4 seed Shuai Zhang of China ousted American Francesca Di Lorenzo 6-1, 6-2 in just an hour and eight minutes, and Olga Danilovic of Serbia outlasted Katarina Zavatska 7-6 (4), 7-5 in two hours and 27 minutes.

-Field Level Media

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