{"id":49178,"date":"2026-06-25T05:18:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T09:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/french-open-champion-andreeva-loses-wimbledon-tune-up-in-bad-homburg\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T05:18:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T09:18:48","slug":"french-open-champion-andreeva-loses-wimbledon-tune-up-in-bad-homburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/french-open-champion-andreeva-loses-wimbledon-tune-up-in-bad-homburg\/","title":{"rendered":"French Open champion Andreeva loses Wimbledon tune-up in Bad Homburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>BAD HOMBURG, Germany &#8211; Mira Andreva lost her first match after winning the French Open on Wednesday, losing to Ekaterina Alexandrova in her only grass-court conditioning before Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p>Two Russian players hug each other online as Alexandrova beats Andreeva and Heat 6-3, 6-4 to advance to the quarterfinals of the Bad Homburg Open.<\/p>\n<p>In the second set, the 19-year-old French Open champion pulled off a table tennis-style trick shot that had so much backspin that it landed on Alexandrova&#8217;s side of the court before bouncing back onto the net, giving Andreva the point.<\/p>\n<p>Alexandrova will next face Naomi Osaka in Bad Homburg.<\/p>\n<p>Top seed Iga Swiatek also struggled with her serve on Wednesday, losing 7-5, 2-6, 6-3 to Emma Navarro. Swiatek committed six double faults in the first set alone. Navarro, who finished runner-up in Nottingham last week, has a record of 6-2 on grass courts this season and will face Elena Gabriela Ruse in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>The top three seeded players in this tournament all lost. Third-seeded French Open quarterfinalist Elina Svitolina withdrew from the quarterfinals Wednesday, citing fitness issues, after defeating Liudmila Samsonova in the second round.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It took a little longer than expected to get out of my body, so I need a few more days to recover,&#8221; she said in a video statement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAD HOMBURG, Germany &#8211; Mira Andreva lost her first match after winning the French Open on Wednesday, losing to Ekaterina Alexandrova in her only grass-court conditioning before Wimbledon. Two Russian players hug each other online as Alexandrova beats Andreeva and Heat 6-3, 6-4 to advance to the quarterfinals of the Bad Homburg Open. In the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1957,2817,241,151,2818,2713,32,24,9390,1790],"class_list":["post-49178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-andreeva","tag-bad","tag-champion","tag-french","tag-homburg","tag-loses","tag-open","tag-tennis","tag-tuneup","tag-wimbledon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}