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Caroline Wozniacki’s first match on a grass court in five years ended in defeat by Elise Mertens at the Birmingham Classic.<\/b><\/p>\n
Former world number one Wozniacki, who won the Australian Open in 2018, lost 6-4 6-1 to Belgian fifth seed Mertens.<\/p>\n
Denmark’s Wozniacki, 33, returned to tennis last year, three and a half years after she retired at the 2020 Australian Open.<\/p>\n
In Berlin, four-time major winner Naomi Osaka lost 6-4 3-6 6-3 to Chinese sixth seed Zheng Qinwen.<\/p>\n
Katie Boulter, Harriet Dart, Heather Watson and Amelia Rajecki are among the British players in action in Birmingham later on Tuesday. <\/p>\n
British women’s number one Boulter, who retained her Nottingham Open title on Sunday, starts against Ukraine’s Anhelina Kalinina, while Dart meets Japan’s Moyuka Uchijima.<\/p>\n
Watson faces Czech eighth seed Marie Bouzkova, and 22-year-old Rajecki contests her first WTA main draw match against Russian Diana Shnaider.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n