“Upper Austria Ladies”: Grabher failed in Linz in the first round

This means that Austria is no longer represented in the individual competition of the event, which is endowed with almost 260,000 dollars. The last ÖTV player to win a match in Linz was Patricia Mayr-Achleitner in 2013. Grabher gave up her serve in the opening game, but promptly managed the rebreak and broke through Brengle’s serve to make it 4:2. After that, her service didn’t get through and the set went into a tiebreak, where the world number 82. Mengle clearly had the better end for himself. In the second set, Grabher was able to keep up to 2:2, after that the 26-year-old had no chance.

The defeat was for the world number 90. Grabher a heavy blow. “I’m mega-mega-disappointed, unfortunately I didn’t do my job. Sometimes I scored good points, but with so many mistakes it’s not enough at this level,” summarized Austria’s number one in the ORF interview. “I tried to play aggressively but I made too many unforced errors and went to the lines too early. It wasn’t good today.”

The pressure of having to fight the ÖTV series of failures in Linz was not to blame for the defeat. “It’s actually good for me when I play in front of an Austrian crowd, but unfortunately I didn’t perform as well as I could,” said Grabher.

The number three seeded Romanian Irina-Camelia Begu had previously lost to Denmark’s Clara Tauson by a score of 1:6,2:6. The final stop was also for Alycia Parks, who won the WTA tournament in Lyon last Sunday. The American lost 2:6.5:7 to the number four Ukrainian Anhelina Kalinina.