(Hamburg) Favorite Anett Kontaveit reached the quarter-finals of the European Tennis Open in Hamburg on Wednesday with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Rebecca Peterson as Andrey Rublev won her first singles match male.
Posted at 5:40 p.m.
Ranked second in the world, Kontaveit had five breaks of service in this second-round duel. The Estonian will cross swords with Andrea Petkovic for a place in the semi-finals.
For Kontaveit, it will be only his second appearance in the quarter-finals of a tournament since February, after his season was turned upside down by a coronavirus infection in the spring.
In another women’s singles match, fourth-seeded Aliaksandra Sasnovich defeated Aleksandra Krunic 6-3, 6-2. In the quarter-finals, she will find seventh-seeded Maryna Zanevska.
For his part, Rublev slammed 12 aces en route to a 6-3, 6-4 win over Ricardas Berankis in the first round. For Rublev, it was his first game in Hamburg since winning the Hamburg Open in 2020.
On his next outing, Rublev will try to take the measure of Francisco Cerundolo.
Elsewhere, Alex Molcan upset Spain’s Pablo Carreno-Busta 6-3, 1-6, 7-6 (5) in a second-round match. In the quarter-finals, Molcan will face Borna Coric.