Andrea Petkovic beats Juvan in qualifying and fights his way into the main draw at the Masters in Madrid after an injury

Most recently, the Darmstadt native canceled both the WTA Masters in Indian Wells and her participation in the Billie Jean King Cup for Germany due to a leg injury.

It was only on Tuesday that Petkovic celebrated her comeback on the WTA tour at the start of the qualifying tournament for the clay court classic in Madrid. She didn’t give the Japanese Misaki Doi a chance at 6: 4, 6: 2.

The game in the second qualifying round on Wednesday against Juvan, on the other hand, started very evenly. After just one break on both sides, the score was 6:6 and the tie-break of the first set began.

With a better end for Petkovic, who after 51 hard-fought minutes, took the serve from Juvan to make it 7:4 and thus secured the first round.

Petkovic keeps his nerve in Breakfestival

At the beginning of the second set, the game turned into a veritable break festival: when the score was 4: 4, both players had already given up their own service three times.

However, Petkovic was unimpressed by this, then got the next break to 5: 4 from her point of view and a little later, after a total of 1:37 hours on her own service, converted her first match ball to victory.

In the first round in Madrid, number 67 in the world now meets US Open finalist Fernandez (Canada). Petkovic is the only German participant in the Spanish capital.