{"id":10394,"date":"2023-06-12T16:25:31","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T16:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/nottingham-open-britains-heather-watson-beats-jule-niemeier-in-straight-sets\/"},"modified":"2023-06-12T16:25:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T16:25:32","slug":"nottingham-open-britains-heather-watson-beats-jule-niemeier-in-straight-sets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/nottingham-open-britains-heather-watson-beats-jule-niemeier-in-straight-sets\/","title":{"rendered":"Nottingham Open: Britain’s Heather Watson beats Jule Niemeier in straight sets"},"content":{"rendered":"


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British number six Heather Watson has won four career singles titles on the WTA Tour – most recently at Acapulco in 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Heather Watson reached the second round at the Nottingham Open with a straight-set win over Germany’s Jule Niemeier.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Briton, 31, won five successive games as she battled back from 4-1 behind to rescue the opening set.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Watson then closed out impressively in set two, winning five of the final six games to secure a 6-4 6-3 victory over the 23-year-old Niemeier, who was a Wimbledon quarter-finalist last year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Top seed <\/span>Maria Sakkari<\/strong> also began her campaign with a straight-set win. <\/span><\/p>\n

The Greek world number eight eventually took her fifth match point to edge a second-set tie-break against China’s Wang Xiyu and prevail 6-2 7-6 (8-6).<\/span><\/p>\n

There were also victories for Germany’s 2022 Wimbledon semi-finalist <\/span>Tatjana Maria <\/strong>and Australian Open quarter-finalist <\/span>Donna Vekic<\/strong>. <\/span><\/p>\n

Maria beat China’s Zhang Shuai 6-1 6-4 to set up a second-round meeting with Watson, while Croatia’s Vekic won 6-2 4-6 6-1 against Spain’s Cristina Bucsa.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, 21-year-old British qualifier Sonay Kartal was beaten 6-3 5-7 6-2 by Poland’s <\/span>Magdalena Frech<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the men’s draw at the grass-court tournament, Britons Arthur Fery, Ryan Peniston and George Loffhagen also play on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n

Three-time Grand Slam champion Andy Murray has taken a wildcard entry following <\/span>his Surbiton Trophy victory<\/span><\/a> on Sunday, while Dan Evans, Liam Broady and Jan Choinski are also competing.<\/span><\/p>\n

New <\/span>British number one Katie Boulter,<\/span><\/a> Harriet Dart, Jodie Burrage, Katie Swan and Emily Appleton join Watson in the women’s event.<\/span><\/p>\n

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British number six Heather Watson has won four career singles titles on the WTA Tour – most recently at Acapulco in 2020 Heather Watson reached the second round at the Nottingham Open with a straight-set win over Germany’s Jule Niemeier. The Briton, 31, won five successive games as she battled back from 4-1 behind to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10396,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10394\/revisions\/10396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}