Diane Parry sent Clara Tauson out of the Berlin Open on Tuesday afternoon, winning their first-round match 3-6, 4-6 and pushing the Dane deeper into a run that has now gone 102 days without a singles victory. Parry, ranked 60th in the world, converted her second match point to finish the job.
The loss was Tauson's seventh straight defeat in a first-round match at the Berlin tournament and left her ranked 23rd after starting the day 16th at her most recent victory on 6 March. The search around Linda Noskova may point elsewhere, but the result here was clear: Tauson is still trying to find a way back to form, and Berlin did not give her one.
That matters now because Berlin sits as Tauson's penultimate warm-up tournament before Wimbledon, and every set she loses tightens the pressure on the weeks ahead. Her last singles win came on 6 March 2026 against Yulia Putintseva in the round of 64 at the Indian Wells Open, and since then she has played seven matches, lost five and failed to finish two because of injuries. She has now gone through 102 days without winning a tennis match.
The match also had a small twist that showed why the scoreline alone does not tell the whole story. Tauson created several break-point chances in the second set and kept Parry under pressure, but Parry still broke serve once in each set and closed out the contest when it mattered most. That is the sort of loss that leaves little comfort: the chances were there, the response was not.
Tauson now moves on to the WTA tournament in Bad Homburg, Germany, next week, and that trip is starting to look less like a tune-up and more like a test of whether she can stop the slide before Wimbledon begins. Berlin did not reset her season. It showed how much work remains.
