00:00Unseated Qinwen Zheng of China pulled off a major first-round upset at the Athens Open on Monday,
00:06sweeping past Spain's No. 6 seed Jessica Buzas-Monero, 7-5, 6-1.
00:13Zheng showcased a powerful performance by collecting 7 aces to 0 for Buzas-Monero across the 1-hour and 49
00:21-minute match.
00:22The Chinese player demonstrated exceptional resilience by saving 6 of 7 breakpoints,
00:28while successfully converting 4 of 7 breakpoint opportunities against her opponent.
00:33After securing a critical break to close out a highly competitive first set,
00:38Zheng broke Buzas-Monero twice in the second set to cruise comfortably to victory.
00:44In another notable upset in Athens, unseated Mai Hontama of Japan upended Poland's No. 8 seed Magda Lynette
00:52with a hard-fought 6-4, 7-5 victory.
00:56Hontama thoroughly disrupted Lynette's service games by breaking the seeded players' serve three distinct times in each set.
01:03Other opening round winners advancing in the Athens field included home favorite and No. 4 seed Maria Sakkari,
01:10alongside No. 5 seed Sara Bailek of the Czech Republic.
01:14American Alicia Parks, Austria's Lily Taggart, Australia's Elena Micic, and Great Britain's Harriet Dart
01:22also secured victories to advance through their respective matches.
01:26At the Unicredit Iasi Open in Romania, No. 2 seed Petra Marcinko of Croatia survived a scare
01:33by outlasting Argentine wildcard Nadia Podorowska, 6-2, 3-6, 6-4 on clay.
01:41Marcinko saved an impressive 16 of 19 breakpoints, including all 8 in the deciding set,
01:47while Hungary's No. 7 seed Anna Bondar, Armenia's Alina Chereva, and France's Clara Burel also won.
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