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Tennis: Swiatek and Gauff avoid early defeat in the Madrid Open

# Tennis: Defending champion Iga Swiatek came from a set down to beat Filipino teenager Alexandra Eala, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2, in their Madrid Open second-round match. The Pole is joined in the third round by American Coco Gauff, who overcame a disastrous first set to beat Ukraine’s Dayana Yastremska, 0-6, 6-2, 7-5. Stuttgart champion Jelena Ostapenko suffered a shock, 7-6, 6-2, loss to fellow Latvian Anastasija Sevastova. In the men’s draw, Britain’s Cameron Norrie, Kei Nishikori of Japan and Germany’s Jan-Lennard Struff are through to the second round.