Sinja Kraus advanced to the round of 32 at the WTA 1000 tournament in Beijing. In the round of 64, she led 4:1 in the first set before Anastasia Potapova retired. The tournament is being played on hard courts, and the prize money is $9.4 million.
The match did not even reach the end of the opening set. Kraus took four of the five games played, and then the contest was stopped. The entire match fit into one incomplete set, with the set score 1:0, according to api.tennis.
Ranking versus form
According to rank.tennis, Kraus is 93rd in the rankings with 800 points. Potapova is ranked 24th with 1816 points and was seeded 16th in Beijing. For Kraus, this was already her second win at the tournament: in the round of 128 she beat Maya Joint in three sets, 6:3, 3:6, 7:5.
Before Beijing, Kraus reached the semifinals in Porto. There she successively defeated Matilde Jorge, 6:4, 7:5, and Elena Malygina, 6:7(5), 6:3, 6:4, before losing to Reese Brantmeier in the semifinals, 3:6, 0:6. Potapova arrived after the US Open, where she won three matches: against Daria Semenistaja, Leolia Jeanjean and Amanda Anisimova. In the fourth round, she lost to Mirra Andreeva, 7:5, 4:6, 3:6.
This was the second head-to-head meeting between the two players, and both have gone Kraus's way. The first one, also in 2026, she won in three sets, 6:2, 6:7(5), 6:3. The head-to-head now stands at 2:0 in her favor.