Russian Diana Shnaider cruised to a 6–4, 7–5 victory over No. 1 seed Bernarda Pera of the United States in the first round of the Hungarian Grand Prix on Tuesday in Budapest.
Shnaider saved 7 of 11 break points to dispatch Pera, who couldn’t hold leads of 1–0 and 3–1 in the second set. Shnaider did not commit a double fault while tallying four aces.
The No. 2 seed, Shuai Zhang of China, was also eliminated when she retired to Hungarian Amarissa Toth. Ninth-seeded Argentine Nadia Podoroska and Kazakhstan’s Yulia Putintseva, the No. 4 seed, both held off unranked opponents in three sets.
Hungary’s Anna Bondar, Italian Fanny Stollar, Russia’s Maria Timofeeva, German Tamara Korpatsch, and Anna Siskova of the Czech Republic also won their respective matches….
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