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Mouthwatering First Round Match Ups • Eastbourne Tennis 2021 • WTA | ATP
- Updated: June 20, 2021
- 2021 Roland Garros runner-up Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova to face 2017 Roland Garros champion Jelena Ostapenko
- 2019 US Open champion Bianca Andreescu pitched against 2017 US Open finalist Madison Keys
- 2008 Australian Open finalist Jo-Wilfried Tsonga to face Belarussian Egor Garasimov
The draws at the LTA Viking International Eastbourne have thrown
up some mouthwatering match-ups in both the WTA 500 and ATP 250 events.
When the main draw gets underway on Monday 21 June fans will be
treated to a host of Grand Slam winners and finalists pitched against each
other in the first round at Devonshire Park.
Recent Roland Garros finalist Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova will make
the switch from clay to grass and faces a difficult opponent in 2017 Roland
Garros champion Jelena Ostapenko.
2019 US Open champion Bianca Andreescu, making her debut in
Eastbourne, will take on 2017 US Open finalist Madison Keys.
2020 Roland Garros singles champion and 2021 doubles finalist in
Paris Iga Swiatek will need to find her grass game quickly when she takes on
Brit Heather Watson, fresh from her run to the semi finals in Birmingham.
On the men’s side 2008 Australian Open finalist Jo-Wilfried
Tsonga will open his Eastbourne account against Belarussian Egor
Garisimov. Fellow Frenchman and two-time Wimbledon semi finalist Richard
Gasquet will face mercurial Kazakh Alexander Bublik.
On the first day of qualifying British wild card Alexander Gray
scored an impressive win over top seed, Soonwoo Kwon 46 62 63. The 22
year-old from Twickenham, Surrey is playing in his first ATP Tour event, but
did not let that phase him as he scored victory over the Korean ranked 79 in
the world. He will now face Australia’s James Duckworth for a place in
the main draw.
ATP Main DrawOrder of Play – Sunday 20 June
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