The 2021 Open 6ème Sens in Lyon will feature interesting matchups throughout the first week of March.
The 2nd day of the Open 6ème Sens in Lyon is on Tuesday and it will bring a programme of 7 interesting matches starting at 11:00. At that time we will see Gatto-Monticone vs Martincova and Gasparyan vs Zavatska. The native crowd will get to see top-ranked French player Mladenovic play Buzarnescu. At the same time, Voegele will take on Irina Bara. Another native player Tan will play against Badosa at 14:00 concluding the first part of the schedule.
The 2nd part reserved for the evening will kick off with an all-French affair as Dodin will take on Garcia. Both of these players enjoy playing on home soil so it will be a very good clash between players who know each other well. The final match of the day will feature Bouchard play Sasnovich. It is scheduled to start at 19:00 CET with both players looking to advance to the next round.
2021 Lyon Open 6ème Sens Schedule of Play:
Tuesday, March 2nd:
11:00 Gatto-Monticone G. (Ita) - Martincova T. (Cze)
11:00 Zavatska K. (Ukr) - Gasparyan M. (Rus)
12:30 Mladenovic K. (Fra) - Buzarnescu M. (Rou)
12:30 Voegele S. (Sui) - Bara Irina M. (Rou)
14:00 Tan H. (Fra) - Badosa G. P. (Esp)
17:30 Dodin O. (Fra) - Garcia C. (Fra)
19:00 Sasnovich A. (Blr) - Bouchard E. (Can)
Monday, March 1st:
Last year's champion, Sofia Kenin will not take part at the 2021 Open 6ème Sens in Lyon and so we'll get to know a new champion in France this year. The first-seeded
Ekaterina Alexandrova and no. 2
Fiona Ferro are the biggest favorites to win the title.
And they will join the play already on Monday. The day will start with a match between Greetje Minnen and Katarzyna Kawa alongside the match between Arantxa Rus and Xiyu Wang. Then, we'll see the doubles specialist Timea Babos take one Varvara Gracheva and Nina Stojanovic who will try to get her first victory against
Sorana Cirstea.
Later in the day, no. 1 in Lyon, Ekaterina Alexandrova will play against young Danish talent Clara Tauson. Magda Frech will then meet Fiona Ferro and the last match of the day will feature
Camila Giorgi who will play against Viktoria Kuzmova who is out of form.
11:00 Minnen G. (Bel) - Kawa K. (Pol)
11:00 Rus A. (Ned) - Wang Xiy. (Chn)
12:30 Babos T. (Hun) - Gracheva V. (Rus)
12:30 Stojanovic N. (Srb) - Cirstea S. (Rou)
14:00 Alexandrova E. (Rus) - Tauson C. (Den)
17:30 Frech M. (Pol) - Ferro F. (Fra)
19:00 Kuzmova V. (Svk) - Giorgi C. (Ita)