STRASBOURG: Together with the French Open per week off planet No.7 Bianca Andreescu made a sleek 6-1, 6-2 victory over Spain’s Andrea Lazaro about the Strasbourg clay courts Monday even though having a six-week injury lay away. Sidelined by a foot injury which found that the 2019 US Open winner leave the Miami closing against Ashleigh Barty on April 3, Andreescu cut on a positive figure Monday with retrieved from Covid-19. “I’d put that game in my best five apocalyptic games,” that the 20-year-old Canadian explained following the 61-minute match. “I concentrated on becoming 100 per cent and also try my best, and that is exactly what I did,” inserted that the best seed. Andreescu talked about her encounter with Covid in less favorable terms. “This was a bit hard, my lungs… I felt out of breath a great deal. I simply kept practising, and it kept getting better,” explained Andreescu, who added she had been expecting to be vaccinated from Covid soon. Venus Williams, playing at age 40, prolonged her losing streak to five games with a three set loss to Sorana Cirstea, 6-1, 2-6, 6-1.