Rain broke up the second day at the Libema Open, interrupting the afternoon matches and leaving only five of ten singles completed. Eighth seed Barbora Krejcikova made the cleanest start, beating Renata Zarazua 6-1, 6-2 on her return to grass, while sixth seed Sara Bejlek and seventh seed Janice Tjen both went out, to Dayana Yastremska and qualifier Greet Minnen. Two more matches were suspended deep in a deciding set, with Caty McNally a break up on Emma Navarro at 2-1 and Hanne Vandewinkel ahead of Nikola Bartunkova 3-2 with a break, both to resume Wednesday alongside three matches that never started.
Krejcikova makes a clean start to her grass return
Barbora Krejcikova began her grass season with a 6-1, 6-2 win over Renata Zarazua that rarely left the eighth seed in trouble. The first set was close to flawless, the Wimbledon 2024 champion dropping a single point behind her serve while keeping her error count low and pulling Zarazua out of position at will. The only wobble came early in the second, when Zarazua broke back to level at 2-2, but Krejcikova answered by taking the next four games to close it out. She won close to 90% of her first-serve points, struck three aces, and took 17 of 27 return pressure points, the return work the main reason she converted five of thirteen break chances. For a player whose season has been broken up by injury, this was only her fifth main-tour win of the year, and a useful first hit-out before the bigger grass weeks. Zarazua's defeat extends her losing run to six matches.
Ruse snaps a losing run on the court where she reached last year's final
Elena-Gabriela Ruse returned to the site of her 2025 final, where she lost to Elise Mertens, and ended a three-match losing run with a 6-4, 7-6(5) win over Tamara Korpatsch. The serve carried her: Ruse won 78% of her first-serve points and struck three aces, though nine double faults kept Korpatsch within range throughout. She held the key moments, winning 13 of 17 serve pressure points, and that steadiness on serve decided a tight second-set tiebreak. The win moves her head-to-head over Korpatsch to 4-1 and offers some footing after a flat run that included a retirement in her opening match at Roland Garros.
Yastremska races past Bejlek in straight sets
Dayana Yastremska beat sixth seed Sara Bejlek 6-1, 6-2 in their first career meeting, a clean grass-court start to follow an uneven recent stretch. Her last title came on clay at Parma more than three weeks ago, where she beat Krejcikova in the final, though she then lost her opening match at Roland Garros to Jasmine Paolini. This is her best result at this tournament, beating a first-round showing in 2022. Yastremska faced early pressure on her own serve and dealt with it, saving five of six break points before her return game took over: she won 13 of 23 return pressure points to keep breaking down Bejlek's holds, and took 12 of 19 serve pressure points when the games tightened. Four double faults were the one blemish on an otherwise controlled afternoon. This was a debut for 20 years-old Czech in main draw of WTA Tour event on grass. The Abu Dhabi champion from February won just one match on grass in Berlin qualies two years ago
Minnen turns to her best surface to see off Tjen
Qualifier Greet Minnen beat seventh seed Janice Tjen 7-6(4), 6-1 after edging a tight opening set, a result that fits her history on the surface rather than running against it. Grass is comfortably Minnen's best court: she holds a 10-12 main-tour record on it, against 42% on hard and just a single main-tour win on clay in her entire career, and she reached the quarterfinals here last year. Tjen, who climbed up through the ITF circuit, had no answer once the first set was settled, with Minnen saving all four break points she faced and dropping only one game in the second. The win is a steadying one in a season that has otherwise been a struggle for the Belgian. The Indonesian made a huge progress last year and her transition to WTA competitions came smoothly, but 2026 is a difficult story so far. Tjen is 7-15 this season and won just 2 out of 10 matches this year.
Sonmez outlasts Volynets in three sets
Zeynep Sonmez recovered from a one-sided second set to beat Katie Volynets 6-3, 2-6, 6-3, a second career win over the American after their US Open meeting last year. Sonmez took control of the decider behind solid serving, winning 17 of 28 serve pressure points, and took 10 of 25 return pressure points to keep pressure on a Volynets serve that had carried her through qualifying. Four double faults aside, Sonmez was the steadier player when the third set turned.
Wednesday matches preview
Apart from two matches to be resumed, three of first round's encounters are fully rescheduled for tomorrow. Second round starts on Wednesday with two matches. Panna Udvardy who dropped an upset over top seed Ekaterina Alexandrova meets Daria Snigur who defeated wild card Paula Badosa. Greet Minnen follows today's victory playing Robin Montgomery. The American scraped through qualifying to move past Daria Kasatkina in three sets on Monday.
