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In the first round of the Toronto tennis tournament, Germany Open champion Angelique Kerrper and Russia's Maria Sharapova finished their third of five Premier League matches, bowing to the Russian Daria Castakkina and Estonian Anit Contavet Tualia.
The two players had the same fate as they appeared to be on the way to the second round, including Kerber, who settled the first set of his match and Kasatkina easily 6-0, but the performance of the Open champion's Australia, Wimbledon Meadows 2016 and 2016, dropped significantly after that and lost the next two series without significant resistance 2-6 and 4-6.
In the first round, the Australian Ashley Party, the Japanese Naume Osaka, the Romanian Simona Halib, 2016 and 2018, were the first two players, while Kerrber, 12th seed, was the first victim, alongside Sharapova who hoped for a better return. Has been unavailable since the withdrawal of the first round of Wimbledon due to injury.
But the 32-year-old, who has won five Grand Slam titles, ended up losing 6-4 3-6 4-6 against Contafit.
Sharapova looked set to win his fourth victory since January after winning the first set and broke his opponent early in the second set, but the Estonian, 16th in the tournament, rose and won the group in his favor, before fighting a fierce battle with his Russian opponent in the decisive C group. The ninth period was exactly when the transmission was in Sharapova's possession.
Sharapova refused to give up easily and managed to tie her opponent nine times during the ninth half, before the latter translated her third chance in that half to break the Russian after a battle of 39, about 15 minutes, before winning the service in the tenth half of the first opportunity and arrange the meeting for her.
After the meeting, the Estonian commented that he was trying to focus on each point without thinking too much about the outcome and that he succeeded (strategy) in the end.
While Contavet was preparing for a second-round encounter with veteran Venus Williams or Spain's Carla Suarez Navarro on Tuesday, Sharapova began thinking of his next tournament next week in Cincinnati, the fourth of the "First 5" Dollars
As was the case in Toronto, which runs in Montreal to host the Men's and Women's Premier 5 Masters, Sharapova received an invitation card to participate in Cincinnati.
The Russian, ranked 81st in the professional ranks, said her battle on Monday confirmed she had fully recovered from the injury to her left forearm, saying, "I did a lot efforts to reach this stage (physical preparation), and so I think that the end of this match is good. This is certainly not the result I wanted, but the general feeling is good. "
Against Kerber and Sharapova, two former champions have reached the second round: Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki, winner in 2010, and Swiss Belinda Pencic in 2015.
Wozniacki, ranked 15th in Toronto and 18th in the world, beat Kazakhstan's Ukrainian 6-4, 6-2. Pensic defeated Russia's Anastasia Botapova 6-2, 6-1.
In the second round of the second round against Wimbledon in the second round against Aya Tomljanovic and Poland's Iga Sviatik, Pensic will face Germany's Jelena Gurgis, who beat Slovenian Bulona Herzog 6-3, 1-6, 7-6 (7 -5).
In other highlights, Britain's Johanna Conta, 13th in the tournament and 14th in the world, lost to Ukraine's Diana Yastrimska, 3-6, 2-6, while Latvia's Lilia Ostapenko beat France's Caroline Garcia 6 -3 and 6-3.
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