On February 25, local time, the first round of the women's singles competition at the 2025WTA250 Austin station began, and two-time Wimbledon champion Kvitova ushered in her postpartum comeback debut, marking the return of another mother-level player in women's tennis. The Czech star battled Bretch in three sets against Britain's Bretch, ranked No.189 in the world, and finally suffered a 6-3, 4-6, 4-6 reversal.

Kvitova infographic

After defending champion Yuan Yue was eliminated in the first round, China's Wei Sijia was defeated 7-5/3-6/2-6 by Belgian player Minen, and there are no Chinese players in the women's singles draw at this station. Wei Sijia won two consecutive matches in this Austin tournament to break through from the qualifying round, and immediately rose to No.115 in the rankings, and has now entered the women's singles main draw of the WTA1000 Indian Wells station.

Wei Sijia

Elsewhere, top seed Pegula received a retirement gift from Ruth to advance to the second round when he led 6-3, 3-2. Second seed Schneider defeated qualifier Prozolova 0-6, 6-2, 7-5 after swallowing an egg in the first set and falling behind 1-4 in the deciding set. Third seed Stearns lost 2-6, 3-6 to Gracheva.

Zhang Shuai and Yuan Yue won the Women's Doubles, with Yuan Yue/Blinkova beating top seeds Buxa/Miki Kato 7-6(5), 6-4, and Zhang Shuai/Kessler beating local pair Mandrick/McNally 6-3, 6-0 to advance to the Women's Doubles quarter-finals.

(Text, Editor/Faye Wong, Photo/Li Jianyi)