A LOOK AHEAD
It’s the last chance for players to get in some extra match play before the French Open begins as both tours have two events going on this week. One of the WTA events this week is in Strasbourg, France. Last year, Barty and her recently retired partner, Casey Dellacqua, won the title over sisters Hao-Ching and Yung-Jan Chan. The Chans returned to the event this year, but with different partners. Hao-Ching and Zhaoxuan Yang were the top seeds, but dropped their opening match. They have company on the sidelines for seeds as the No. 2 seeds in the draw, Shuko Aoyama and Renata Voracova also lost their first match.
In Nurnberg, Germany, Nicole Melichar and Kveta Peschke are the top seeds, followed by Kirsten Flipkens and Johanna Larsson. Demi Schuurs is partnering with the veteran Katarina Srebotnik here.
At the ATP tournament in Geneva, Switzerland, where Marach and Pavic are the top seeds, there’s already been a couple of upsets. Max Mirnyi and Philipp Oswald, the No. 3 seeds, and No. 4-seeded Marcelo Demoliner and Santiago Gonzalez are already out.
It almost looks like all of the tournaments are up for grabs: In Lyon, France, top seeds Jean-Julien Rojer and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi dropped their opener, too. There’s an unseeded team lurking in the draw there that’s quite intriguing: Jack Sock and Nick Kyrgios. If they don’t win, though, you can be sure they’ll be out there hitting plenty of tweeners and hot shots.
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