Nika is playing in qualies for next week's $50K+ in Biberach. Here's her section of the draw:
(1)Romina Oprandi (ITA) v Anne Kremer (LUX)
Tereza Mrdeza (CRO) v Dia Evtimova (BUL)
Estelle Guisard (FRA) v Irina-Camelia Begu (ROU)
(7)Ani Mijacika (CRO) v Nika Ozegovic (CRO)
It'll be interesting to see who wins between Nika and Ani. They played twice last year. Ani won the first time, 63 16 63; Nika won the second time in an extremely close match, 67(3) 76(3) 75.
According to the drawsheet on the ITF website, Nika plays Romina OPRANDI (ITA), who beat Aniko KAPROS (HUN) 76(4) 63. Good luck, Nika!
PS: Half of the players in that quarter of the draw have last names beginning with "O": ONDRASKOVA, OSTERTAG, OPRANDI and OZEGOVIC. How often does that happen?!?
In their previous meetings Oprandi beat Nika three times, but Nika won once...on a retirement:lol: Jokes aside, Nika seems to be finding her form so we can hopefully expect her to rise in the rankings quite quickly - those wins against the likes of Kremer sound encouraging. Nika isn't defending any important points until something like May, so she can pretty much only get better.
In their previous meetings Oprandi beat Nika three times, but Nika won once...on a retirement:lol: Jokes aside, Nika seems to be finding her form so we can hopefully expect her to rise in the rankings quite quickly - those wins against the likes of Kremer sound encouraging. Nika isn't defending any important points until something like May, so she can pretty much only get better.
this week nika is in 25k event in brescia. she easily qualified (losing just 3 games in two matches) and in first round she beat majeric who is 259th in the moment 7-5 6-1. in the next round she plays 5th seed, ondraskova (177th on wta in the moment). good luck nika!
doubles - Horvat/Ozegovic (WC) vs. Hruba/Pantuckova
Nice to see her name again. Wonder if this is a one-time thing or something...she has wins over some good names in her career (Kirilenko comes to mind).