DEN BOSCH, Netherlands (AP)—Third-seeded Yanina Wickmayer recovered from taking a ball to the face to beat Arantxa Parra Santonja 7-6 (4), 6-7 (4), 7-5 in the second round of the Unicef Open on Wednesday.
Wickmayer was leading 2-1 in the second set and attempting a backhand service return when a ball ricocheted off her racket’s frame and hit near her left eye. The Belgian was shaken and sat in her chair for several minutes, holding a bottle of water to her face before resuming the match.
After losing the second-set tiebreaker, Wickmayer fought back to break the Spaniard twice in the third.
Wickmayer said it took her a few games to recover from the shot, “but by the third set I was fine.”
In the men’s draw of the grass-court Wimbledon warmup, another third-seeded Belgian, Xavier Malisse, had an easier second-round match, beating Dutch wild card Jesse Huta Galung 7-6 (2), 6-4.
Both players dropped serve once on the way to the first-set tiebreaker, which Malisse easily won before breaking Huta Galung once in the final set and closing out the match with a pair of aces. Malisse’s quarterfinal opponent will be American Alex Bogomolov Jr., who beat Filippo Volandri of Italy 7-6 (2), 6-2.
Jelena Dokic had her second straight-set victory of the tournament to beat fourth-seeded Flavia Pennetta 6-3, 6-4.
The Australian meets Johanna Larsson in the quarterfinals after the Swede beat Kirsten Flipkens 6-2, 5-7, 6-4.