Australia’s girls will head in the direction of the US Open in patchy kind after Maya Joint accomplished their elimination from the final huge warm-up occasion, the Cincinnati Open.
After a vivid begin, {the teenager} was outgunned by Ekaterina Alexandrova 6-4, 6-3 in 75 minutes on a sweltering day within the midwest metropolis.
Opening play on a sparsely-attended court docket 3, the 19-year-old gained an early break within the last-32 third-round tie, and was 2-0 and 4-2 up.
However the Twelfth-seeded Russian stepped up the facility to take the set with two breaks.
The second stanza was extra carefully contested, till Alexandrova received the sixth recreation to take a 4-2 lead and served out, concluding with an ace.
Joint had compelled 5 break factors however took just one, whereas Alexandrova received all three break factors she created.
Compatriots Daria Kasatkina, Ajla Tomljanovic and Kimberly Birrell all misplaced their second-round matches, however being ranked throughout the high 100, all needs to be confirmed in the principle draw for the US Open, which begins on August 24.
Nevertheless, Joint’s probabilities of becoming a member of Kasatkina among the many seeds in New York, which could have been achieved with a deep run in Cincinnati, have gone.
Joint, who was born and grew up within the neighbouring state of Michigan, is at the moment entered for one more Ohio occasion subsequent week, the WTA 250 in Cleveland.
She is going to hope to choose up the shape that enabled her to defeat 18th-seeded Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia in Cincinnati on Saturday.
Two Aussie males, Adam Walton and Alexei Popyrin, are nonetheless within the Cincinnati Open, with each because of play their third-round matches on Wednesday (AEST).
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