Among the players in first round action at the 2021 WTA Gdynia Open will have Harmony Tan facing lucky loser Amina Anshba and Jamie Loeb taking on Maryna Zanevska of Belgium. Get the live streaming options for these matches along with Varvara Gracheva v Viktoria Kuzmova and Irina Begu v Ysaline Bonaventure.
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Harmony Tan v Amina Anshba Preview
Tan, who made her main draw Grand Slam singles debut at the US Open in 2018, reached her all-time career high ranking in May of this year.
She has appeared in 15 finals on the ITF circuit, winning seven of them, most recently on home soil in Andrezieux-Boutheon in France. Clay is her preferred surface, although she has enjoyed some success on hard courts as well.
In terms of the senior tour, her best result of the year was in Bogota in Aprille here she came through qualifying to reach the semi-finals, losing eventually to the Spaniard Maria Osorio-Serrano.
Tan reached the second round of the French Open for the frit time, but was beaten in the fist round of Lausanne by compatriot Fiona Ferro.
The Frenchwoman will be up against Amina Anshba, a 21-year-old Russian ranked 325th in the world. Anshba made it to the main draw despite losing her second qualifier to Ekaterina Gorgodze after a slew of pull-outs from the tournament.
Anshba made it to the quarterfinal in ITF Orlando on hard courts earlier this season but then switched over to her favourite clay court. Since then, a couple of quarterfinals and a semifinal on the ITF circuit have followed before her first qualification for the main draw here.
Expect Tan to put to bed this match in straight sets.
Tan v Anshba Tip
Tan to win in straight sets: 8/15 (bet365)
Jamie Loeb v Maryna Zanevska Preview
Ukrainian-born Zanevska is now a Belgian citizen, and, as a junior won the US Open doubles title back in 2009, and the French Open two years later..
A doubles specialist, she has reached four senior finals, most recently the Bucharest Open in 2018, but she has yet to appear on the winning side.
She spends the majority of time on the ITF tour, and she has already made two finals in 2021, finishing runner-up in Grenoble, but winning last month in Otocec, Slovenia.
As lucky losers go, Loeb would be one of those few who lost in the first of two rounds of qualification and still managed to get through to the main draw of the tournament – yep, there have been those many withdrawals from this tournament.
However, what that means is Zanevska, who herself received a special exempt into the main draw from the qualifiers, should not have a lot of difficulties in getting past her unprepared opponent, who well might have been preparing for her flight back home.
Loeb v Zanevska Tip
Zanevska to win in straight sets: 4/5 (bet365)
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Varvara Gracheva v Viktoria Kuzmova Preview
Still just 20, Gracheva made her main draw debut two years ago in Lausanne, and then, shortly after that won her maiden match at the Citi Open in the US.
She has since made the third round of the US Open, emulating that feat at the French Open where she beat the world number 61, Camila Giorgi of Italy, before losing to the Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk.
Three years old , Slovakian Kuzmova was a top 50 player two years ago, the same year that she too reached the third round of the French Open.
To date, though, her biggest successes have come in doubles, where she has appeared in six finals, three of them this year, With regular partner Anna Kalinskaya she was runner-up at the Yara Valley Classic, and then was a beaten finalist earlier this month at the Prague Open.
In between those appearances though, she won the Lyon Open with Arantxa Rus.
Singles-wise, she has won 14 ITF titles, but it hs been three years since the last of her wins.
Her best result on the main tour this year was in Monterrey in March, where she reached the quarter-final before losing to the Canadian teenager Leylah-Annie Fernandez.
Gracheva v Kuzmova Tip
Gracheva will start the favourite against an opponent who enjoys greater success currently on the doubles court.
Gracheva to win: 4/9 (bet365)
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Irina-Camelia Begu v Ysaline Bonaventure Preview
Romanian Begu was once ranked as high as 22 in the world, and, although not laying to that level these days, has been within the world’s top 100 for more than a decade now.
She ahs won 4 senior singles titles in her career, and has achieved even greater success in doubles, winning nine titles, and reaching the semi-finals of the Australian Open and, earlier this year, the French Open, She has also made the quarter-finals in doubles at the French Open and Wimbledon.
Earlier this year she reached the quarter-final of the Melbourne warm-up event, the Gippsland Trophy and then the Phillip Island Trophy, and, more recently, got to the third round of Wimbledon before losing to Iga Świątek.
Bonaventure’s highest singles ranking was 109 in the world, achieved two years ago. She has represented Belgium at the Fed Cup, but has only ever won one Grand Slam match, at the US Open last year.
She spends the majority of her time on the junior tour, where she hs won 11 titles, the most recent of which was in France last January.
Bonaventure suffered a long losing streak earlier this year, but that ended that by reaching the third round in Hamburg, beating the American Bernarda Pera along the way, before losing to the German veteran Andrea Petkovic.
She then played in the Prague Open, where she was beaten in the second round by the French Open winner Barbora Krejcikova.
Begu v Bonaventure Tip
Begu is not only the higher ranked of the pair, but she as more experience of playing consistently at a higher level.
Begu to win: 3/10 (bet365)
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