Petkovic First Win upsets Muguruza; Sakkari rolls in Berlin | Tennisspeak
Petkovic First Win upsets Muguruza; Sakkari rolls in Berlin | Tennisspeak Andrea Petkovic assured a German presence in the second round of the bett1open after she upset No.5 seed Garbiñe Muguruza 7-6(8), 6-4 on Tuesday in Berlin. Former Top 10 player Petkovic took 2 hours and 6 minutes to grab two tough sets against former World No.1 Muguruza. Petkovic is now 4-1 lifetime against Muguruza. 59th-ranked Petkovic had been 0-9 against Top 20 players on grass before her latest win over Muguruza. It is also Petkovic's first win over a Top 10 player since she beat then-No.6 Petra Kvitova at the 2019 US Open. On Tuesday, Muguruza came back from an early break down to reach a first-set tiebreak, where she held two set points at 6-4. But a double fault and two missed returns gave Petkovic the first of her three set points, and the German eventually eked out the set with a drop shot winner. Petkovic broke Muguruza with a winning putaway in the first game of the second set, and the German save...