Julia Görges is the only player in Wuhan to still hold up the German flag: The Fed Cup player defeated Daria Gavrilova in three sets.Andrea Petkovic and Angelique Kerber had also retired after Mona Barthel.
2:24 in the summer conditions at the WTA Premier 5 tournament in Wuhan, then Julia Görges was the winner of the first round duel with Daria Gavrilova from Australia.The New Regensburg player defeated Gavrilova 6:4,1:6 and 6:4 and now she will face Agnieszka Radwanska from Poland, who had no problems with the Slovakian Magdalena Rybarikova.In a direct comparison with Radwanska, Julia Görges is trailing 2-3 victories, but the last duel in Cincinnati went smoothly to the second-best German player at the moment.
In the end, Görges even had one point less than her opponent on the credit side, but the most important, the last, was the German Fed Cup player.
Angelique Kerber and Andrea Petkovic, on the other hand, were eliminated: Kerber was defeated by the French Caroline Garcia in three sets, while Petkovic had no chance against Lauren Davis from the USA.Mona Barthel had already left Puerto Rico on Sunday against Monica Puig.
Here is the single panel in Wuhan