Budapest: Opening victories for Lisicki and Barthel, Lottner is eliminated

Budapest (SID) Sabine Lisicki continued her way back into the top 100 of the tennis world with a work victory. A good two weeks after her semi-final participation at the WTA tournament in Taipei/Taiwan, the world number 173 wrestled. At the start of the tournament in Budapest, the Frenchwoman Pauline Parmentier fell. After an indisposed performance in the first set, Lisicki won 0:6, 6:4, 6:2. In the round of 16, Lisicki will face the winner of the duel between fourth-seeded Romanian Sorana Cirstea and Viktoria Kuzmova from Slovakia. Fed Cup player Mona Barthel also managed to take a step out of her form slump. The 27-year-old from Neumünster won her first round game against the Ukrainian Kateryna Koslowa 7:6, 5:7, 6:0 and thus avoided her fifth first round defeat in the sixth tournament this year. The world number 74 awaits in the next round. the winner of the duel between Tatjana Maria (Bad Saulgau) and the Hungarian Timea Babos (No.3). However, it was the end in round one for Antonia Lottner (Düsseldorf). Eight days after her surprisingly strong Fed Cup debut with a win against Belarus' top player Alexandra Sasnowitsch, the world number 149 lost. Croatian Petra Martic, who is almost 100 places above her, won 79:4, 6:2 in 6 minutes. Carina Witthöft (Hamburg) is also taking part in the $250.000 gymnastics competition in Budapest.

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Budapest: Opening victories for Lisicki and Barthel, Lottner is eliminated

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