CHICAGO (AP) — Olympic gold medalist Belinda Bencic overcame 10 double-faults and some first-set frustration to grab 12 of the last 13 games against qualifier Maddison Inglis on Wednesday and reach the third round of the Chicago Fall Tennis Classic. 5 seed Elena Rybakina defeated Aliaksandra Sasnovich 6-4, 6-4, and Elena-Gabriela Ruse beat qualifier Kateryna Kozlova 7-5, 6-2. Bencic was a semifinalist at the 2019 U.S. Open and a quarterfinalist there this month, when she lost to eventual champion Emma Raducanu. At 5-all, after Bencic argued briefly with the chair umpire about overruling line calls, Ingils took the next point with a net-cord winner. But after making 21 unforced errors in that set, Bencic cleaned up her strokes the rest of the way and took advantage of some shaky serving by Ingils.

Source: thestar September 29, 2021 17:26 UTC