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Athens Open

Tauson vs Tona — the top seed against a lucky loser who refuses to leave

Preview · Vanda Pharmaceuticals Athens Open · Round of 16 · Hard court · Thursday 16 July 2026 The inaugural Athens Open has handed its top seed a landing that looks gentle on paper and feels a little more awkward than that underneath. Clara Tauson, the Danish world No. 25 and the highest-ranked

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Krejcikova vs Monnet — the Grand Slam champion meets a breakout run

Preview · Vanda Pharmaceuticals Athens Open · Round of 16 · Hard · Thursday 16 July 2026 This is the tie the Athens crowd circled. Barbora Krejčíková, the No. 3 seed, former world No. 2 and 2024 Wimbledon champion, is comfortably the biggest name in the draw. Carole Monnet, the Frenchwoman ranked around No.

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Valentova vs Sasnovich — young seed against seasoned campaigner

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Li vs Korneeva — the seed against the teenager on the rise

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Bejlek vs Tagger — the title-winner meets the teenage phenom

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Parks vs Hontama — raw power against quiet precision

Preview · Vanda Pharmaceuticals Athens Open (WTA 250) · Round of 16 · Outdoor hard · Wednesday 15 July 2026 Few second-round matches offer as clean a stylistic clash as this. Alycia Parks is one of the biggest hitters and servers in the women's game, an American who can end points

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Sakkari vs Dart — the home favourite against the fearless Briton

Preview · Vanda Pharmaceuticals Athens Open (WTA 250) · Round of 16 · Outdoor hard · Wednesday 15 July 2026 Some matches carry an extra charge, and this is one of them. Maria Sakkari is playing a WTA event in her own city, seeded fourth and cheered on by a Greek crowd desperate to

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Zheng vs Micic — the returning champion against the breakthrough kid

Preview · Vanda Pharmaceuticals Athens Open (WTA 250) · Round of 16 · Outdoor hard · Wednesday 15 July 2026 There are comeback stories, and then there is Zheng Qinwen slowly rebuilding a career that once touched world No.4. The Chinese star, an Olympic singles gold medallist in Paris 2024, has spent much

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Tauson vs Hibino — a fourth-meeting reckoning

Preview · Vanda Pharmaceuticals Athens Open · First Round · Hard · 14 July 2026 Clara Tauson opens her campaign at the Athens Olympic Tennis Centre searching for rhythm rather than reinvention. The Danish world No. 30 has managed only two wins from her last eleven matches, both coming during a brief upturn in

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Tona vs Sakellaridi — a slender ranking edge against the roar of the home crowd

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Korneeva vs Ito — the former junior No. 1 favoured over a slumping veteran of the tour

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Bouzas Maneiro vs Zheng — the seed against the fallen name

Preview · Vanda Pharmaceuticals Athens Open · Round of 32 · Hard (outdoor) · Monday, 13 July 2026 On paper this looks like the most intriguing match of the Athens Open's opening day: an Olympic gold medallist against a rising Spaniard seeded to make a deep run. But the paper is deceptive.