Lausanne 2019: Tuesday's Order of Play and Match Points
MATCH POINTS
Former World No.9 Timea Bacsinszky takes on Prague champion Jil Teichmann View Profile in an all-Swiss first-round derby. It is six years since the pair's only previous meeting - in very different circumstances. In February 2013, Bacsinszky was still several months off making her full-time comeback to the Tour from bar and restaurant work, but reached the final of her home ITF $10,000 event in Kreuzlingen (losing to future Top 50 player Ekaterina Alexandrova View Profile ). In the second round, she defeated a 15-year-old Teichmann, who was playing her second professional event, 6-1, 6-1.
No.4 seed Mihaela Buzarnescu's head-to-head against home hope Stefanie Voegele is tied at 1-1, with both matches going the distance. The Swiss won their 2012 Australian Open qualifying tilt 6-3, 4-6, 6-2, but Buzarnescu won their second-round encounter in last year's Midland ITF W100 event 1-6, 6-0, 6-2.
Defending champion Alizé Cornet, who won the tournament in its 2018 location in Gstaad, gets under way against Martina Trevisan View Profile today. The Frenchwoman has never successfully defended a title, and has only once won trophies in consecutive years (Bad Gastein 2012 and Strasbourg 2013).
No.1 seed Julia Goerges opens against wildcard Simona Waltert View Profile , who is making her WTA main draw debut. The 18-year-old Waltert is a former junior World No.9 who has won four ITF World Tour titles and is ranked World No.562.
No.5 seed Tatjana Maria View Profile is 1-0 against qualifier Allie Kiick, having defeated the American 5-7, 6-3, 6-3 in the first round of Cincinnati last year.
ORDER OF PLAY (all courts start 11am)
CENTRE COURT
Samantha STOSUR (AUS) vs [Q] Barbara HAAS (AUT)
[3] Alizé CORNET (FRA) vs Martina TREVISAN (ITA)
[1] Julia GOERGES (GER) vs [WC] Simona WALTERT (SUI)
Not before 3.30pm
Stefanie VOEGELE (SUI) vs [4] Mihaela BUZARNESCU (ROU)
Not before 5.30pm
Timea BACSINSZKY (SUI) vs Jil TEICHMANN (SUI)
COURT 1
Liudmila SAMSONOVA (RUS) vs Pauline PARMENTIER (FRA)
Conny PERRIN (SUI) vs Natalia VIKHLYANTSEVA (RUS)
[1] Monique ADAMCZAK (AUS) / HAN Xinyun (CHN) vs Beatrice GUMULYA (INA) / Jessy ROMPIES (INA)
Daria GAVRILOVA (AUS) / Pauline PARMENTIER (FRA) vs Alison BAI (AUS) / Nicola GEUER (GER)
COURT 2
[5] Tatjana MARIA (GER) vs [Q] Allie KIICK (USA)
Natela DZALAMIDZE (RUS) / Paula KANIA (POL) vs Anastasia POTAPOVA (RUS) / Yana SIZIKOVA (RUS)
Cornelia LISTER (SWE) / Renata VORACOVA (CZE) vs Alexa GUARACHI (CHI) / Erin ROUTLIFFE (NZL)