Kerber and Görges in the Doha round of 16 - out for Witthöft

Doha (SID) Former world number one Angelique Kerber has returned with a convincing victory on the WTA tour 20 days after her semi-final exit at the Australian Open. The Kiel native won her opening match in Doha after a first-round bye against the Australian Samantha Stosur 6:4, 6:1 and will now face the tenth seeded Brit Johanna Konta in the round of XNUMX. Julia Görges (Bad Oldesloe) had already mastered her second round game. After her smooth opening win against Lucie Safarova, the world number ten prevailed in the second duel with a Czech within 24 hours against Barbora Strycova 6:2, 3:6, 6:1. On the other hand, Carina Witthöft (Hamburg) missed the round of the best 16 with a clear 2:6, 0:6 against the Danish world number one and Australian Open winner Caroline Wozniacki. Kerber, who has only had one defeat so far in 2018, needed exactly an hour to win against Stosur and was particularly impressive with a strong first serve rate. She converted her third match point against number 44 in the world. Görges, who confirmed on Tuesday that she would take part in the Fed Cup semi-finals against the Czech Republic (April 21/22), is in the round of 3,17 of the $29 million tournament for the first time. The XNUMX-year-old's next opponent is the Romanian Mihaela Buzarnescu, who surprisingly won against the sixth-seeded French Open winner Jelena Ostapenko (Latvia).

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Kerber and Görges in the Doha round of 16 - out for Witthöft

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