Mutua Madrid Open, Madrid, Spain, WTA Premier

[britbox]

Results from the Madrid Open Women's Singles Round 1 matches on Sunday

4-Dominika Cibulkova (Slovakia) beat Jelena Jankovic (Serbia) 6-4 5-7 7-5
Sorana Cirstea (Romania) beat 13-Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Russia) 6-1 3-6 7-6(5)
Oceane Dodin (France) beat Andrea Petkovic (Germany) 6-3 6-4
Katerina Siniakova (Czech Republic) beat Pauline Parmentier (France) 6-1 6-0
Carla Suarez Navarro (Spain) beat Peng Shuai (China) 3-6 7-5 6-0
Timea Bacsinszky (Switzerland) beat 5-Garbine Muguruza Blanco (Spain) 6-1 6-3
15-Barbora Strycova (Czech Republic) beat Lucie Safarova (Czech Republic) 5-7 6-3 6-3
Johanna Larsson (Sweden) beat Francesca Schiavone (Italy) 5-7 6-3 6-1
CoCo Vandeweghe (U.S.) beat Anett Kontaveit (Estonia) 6-4 7-6(7)
3-Simona Halep (Romania) beat Kristyna Pliskova (Czech Republic) 6-1 6-2
10-Caroline Wozniacki (Denmark) beat Monica Niculescu (Romania) 7-5 6-7(3) 6-4
Zheng Saisai (China) beat 11-Elina Svitolina (Ukraine) 2-6 7-6(4) 6-3
Mariana Duque (Colombia) beat Julia Goerges (Germany) 6-3 6-4
16-Samantha Stosur (Australia) beat Sara Sorribes Tormo (Spain) 6-2 6-0
Wang Qiang (China) beat Caroline Garcia (France) 6-4 6-3
Maria Sharapova (Russia) beat 17-Mirjana Lucic-Baroni (Croatia) 4-6 6-4 6-0
8-Svetlana Kuznetsova (Russia) beat Yaroslava Shvedova (Kazakhstan) 6-4 6-3
Donna Vekic (Croatia) beat Yulia Putintseva (Kazakhstan) 6-3 6-4
Lauren Davis (U.S.) beat Monica Puig (Puerto Rico) 6-3 4-6 7-6(3)
Catherine Bellis (U.S.) beat Daria Gavrilova (Australia) 7-5 5-7 6-2
14-Kristina Mladenovic (France) beat Ana Konjuh (Croatia) 5-7 6-3 0-0 (Konjuh retired)
1-Angelique Kerber (Germany) beat Timea Babos (Hungary) 6-4 6-2

 

[britbox]

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Muguruza, Svitolina all out. I think Konta lost too but can't find the result to confirm.

 

[kskate2]

Genie won't do anything. She can't even beat a player ranked in the 40's, she's not going to bother a former RG champ :nono

 

[tossip]

pova was training really hard during her suspension and I read on someone twitter that the only players that hugged her were Garbage and Puig...I guess its a South American thing to worship bottle blondes....

 

[Moxie]

I'll be interested in the Bouchard/Sharapova grudge match.

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Muguruza, Svitolina all out. I think Konta lost too but can't find the result to confirm.

Konta lost to Laura Siegemund 36 75 64.BTW Konta has still won just three games on the surface in her career.

 

[kskate2]

Pliskova out in straights.

Kerbie sneaks past Siniakova 7-5 in the 3rd after Sini served for the match. She will get the winner of Sharapova/Genie

 

[GameSetAndMath]

Genie serving for the first set, but poorly. down 0-30.

 

[Kieran]

5-5. Come on Genie! :cover

 

[Kieran]

6-5 to Genie, but again, she's struggling to hold. Then again, why am I mentioning this? It's a common feature of the WTA. 30-40 to Sharapova...

 

[Kieran]

Well done, gal! genie takes the first set, 7-5... :clap

 

[kskate2]

Now we find out how much Sharapova has been training. She played 3 sets yesterday and will have to play 3 today if she wants to win. But then she will get a day off and have to play Kerbie on Wed.

 

[Kieran]

We'll also find out if Genie has it in her to keep Sharapova under pressure. I have a feeling that this match will have only one tipping point, and whoever gets the best of it will win. The old cliche applies, I think: Genie's got to close it out in this set!

 

[Kieran]

Genie is slipping worse here than she did that fateful evening in the Flushing Meadows locker room. 4 games on the bounce for the screamer...

 

[kskate2]

She had her chance. She needed to put the final nail in Maria's coffin in the 2nd set and she lost the plot.

 

[Kieran]

Yeah, basically. 5 games on the trot to the pantomime dame...

EDIT: 1-1 in the 3rd now. Come on Genie - grow a pair!

 

[the AntiPusher]

Yeah, basically. 5 games on the trot to the pantomime dame...

EDIT: 1-1 in the 3rd now. Come on Genie - grow a pair!

Not very good tennis ..I really miss Serena now more than ever

 

[Kieran]

Genie is scrapping! Had bp's to go 3-2 up, locked at 2-2. You know, I have a sneaking feeling I might be wrong here, and she'll hang on...

 

[Kieran]

Gonna miss the end of this one, just when Genie breaks to lead 4-3. :cover

Is she still seeing that fan from Twitter, by the way?

 

[GameSetAndMath]

Genie serving for the match.