Tennis: Diane Parry makes a winning return on grass

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A successful start to the grass season for Diane Parry. The Nice native won her first round at the WTA 125 in Ilkley, in the north of England. 

The Nice native Diane Parry has started her season on grass. For a month and up until Wimbledon, she is expected to play through tournaments on this atypical surface. Her objective is to maintain the positive sequences glimpsed on clay in comparison to her difficult start to the season. To do this, Diane Parry is participating in a challenger event. As the 5th seed in Ilkley thanks to her new ranking (97th in the world), the Azuréenne faced a young British player, Ranah Akua Stoiber (20 years old, 465th in the world).

The Nice native quickly takes control of the match. Good service games, coupled with excellent ball length, and she is ahead in the score. Untroubled on her serve, Diane Parry seems to be doing better, notably with the absence of bandaging on her thigh. Mobile and aggressive, she dictates the pace of the match and takes the first set (6-1).

A remarkable performance, considering that her opponent is coming off a successful series of results in ITF, notably a victory in Estepona at the end of May. Enough to alert the Nice native about the reactive capability of the player playing at home. It’s precisely what happens. Ranah Akua Stoiber takes advantage of a drop in the French player’s serve to break. Diane Parry makes more unforced errors and struggles to reclaim her first set level. However, after a long battle in the middle of the second act, the Maralpine manages to level the score (3-3). Four games later, she creates two match points finally saved at the last moment by the English player, due to a lack of realism from the Nice native. The situation intensifies in the next game when Diane Parry has to save two break points herself.

Finally, the Nice native comes through and clinches the win on the last service game against her opponent in this set. Final score (6-1/7-5). In the next round, she will encounter another British player, either Harriet Dart or Amelia Rajecki.