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Krejcikova vs Tomova — a Grand Slam champion chasing momentum

Preview · Athens Open · Round 1 · Hard · Monday, 13 July 2026 Barbora Krejcikova, seeded third at the inaugural Athens Open, opens her campaign against Bulgaria's Viktoriya Tomova in a first-round tie that looks straightforward on paper but carries real context underneath. The Czech is a former Grand Slam

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Parks vs Grammatikopoulou — power against a home wild card

Preview · Athens Open · Round 1 · Hard · Monday, 13 July 2026 Alycia Parks steps onto the hard courts of the new Athens Open as the clearly higher-ranked player in this first-round tie, facing Greek wild card Valentini Grammatikopoulou in what should be one of the more one-sided pairings

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Sasnovich vs Blinkova — old rivalry renewed on Athens hard courts

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Kopriva vs Prizmic — the seed against the home hope

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Van Assche vs Lajovic — a fitness test as much as a tennis one

Preview · Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag (ATP 250) · Round of 32 · Clay · Monday, 13 July 2026 Wimbledon is barely a fortnight in the rear-view mirror and the tour has already swapped grass for the red clay of Umag, where Luca Van Assche opens against the vastly more experienced Dusan

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Trungelliti vs Jacquet — the late bloomer meets the qualifier

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Dzumhur vs Rocha — experience against the rising Portuguese

Preview · Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag (ATP 250) · Round of 32 · Clay · Monday, 13 July 2026 Damir Dzumhur and Henrique Rocha meet in Umag in a matchup that pairs a well-travelled veteran against one of the form players on the Challenger and ATP circuit this year. The Bosnian, ranked

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Munar vs Stricker — the seed against the wild card at home

Preview · EFG Swiss Open Gstaad (ATP 250) · Round 1 · Clay · Monday, 13 July 2026 Jaume Munar opens his clay swing in the Alps as the eighth seed in Gstaad, and he draws a tricky assignment against a wild card who knows the grounds better than anyone else in the draw.

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Collignon vs Skatov — a rematch after a tight Bonn Challenger battle

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Rodionov vs Tabur — two clay-court journeymen chasing momentum

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Kecmanovic vs Feldbausch — a top-50 Serb against a Swiss on the rise

Preview · EFG Swiss Open Gstaad · First round · Clay · Monday, 13 July 2026 Miomir Kecmanovic arrives at Gstaad fresh off arguably his best result of the season — the only player to take a set off Jannik Sinner en route to the Italian's Wimbledon final run — and opens against home

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Sonego vs Schwaerzler — the seasoned Italian against a Challenger regular chasing a breakthrough

Preview · EFG Swiss Open Gstaad · First round · Clay · Monday, 13 July 2026 Gstaad's clay opens with a first-round meeting between Lorenzo Sonego, an established tour regular ranked in the high 60s, and Joel Schwaerzler, an Austrian still building his ATP résumé mostly through Challenger events. It'