The Italian Martina Trevisan was a ball return machine this Wednesday to beat the Tunisian Ons Jabeur, first favorite, 6-7(4), 7-5, 6-3 and reach the quarterfinals at the 1,000 Master in Guadalajara . Trevisan, 54th racket in the world, went from less to more against the seventh in the WTA ranking, and, after losing the first set in the tiebreaker, she insisted and, with great determination, won.
Ons needed one hour and 16 minutes to win the first set with anguish. In the second game, the African made a break, but the Italian immediately recovered, from which a fight of long points began, with Trevisán without respect for her rival’s first-seeded status.
Jabeur, Wimbledon finalist, won the tie break 7-4 and took the first set, after having let go of eight set points. Trevisan did not lose concentration and once again pressed with great mobility on the court. Ons broke in the fifth game, but could not confirm. She did it again in the ninth, but in the tenth and twelfth the Italian deciphered the rival’s serve and forced a third set.
Martina was the protagonist in the closing; Although Jabeur was able to maintain his serve, he found himself low on energy against a woman who was loud in every way, for shouting her blows and for turning the court into a dance hall. In the sixth game Trevisan broke, but he did not confirm: He did not care, he went over Ons and again broke his serve to be superior with his serve in the eighth game and achieve the most important victory of his professional career.
This Thursday, in the top eight phase, the Italian will face the American Carolina Doilehide, a 6-1, 6-2 winner of the eighth-seeded Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova. A while before the Trevisan triumph, the Belarusian Victoria Azarenka, tenth, beat the Russian Veronika Kudermetova 6-2, 6-1.
After being superior in the initial set, ‘Vika’ suffered a break in the first game, however, in the second she fought for 21 minutes to recover. Kudermetova did not recover; Her serve was broken in the fourth and sixth games, which gave the victory to the Belarusian, who in the quarterfinals will face the French Carolina García, third favorite, winner 7-5, 6-4 of the American Hailey Baptiste.
The Colombian Emiliana Arango, 180th in the world ranking, was confirmed as the surprise of the tournament, by beating the American Taylor Townsand 7-5, 1-6, 6-4 and will now play with the Greek María Sakkari, second seed, who She eliminated the Italian Camila Giorgi 6-2, 6-2.
In other round of 16 results, the American Sofía Kenin beat the sixth-seeded Lithuanian Jelena Ostapenko 6-4, 7-5, and the Canadian Leylah Fernández beat the American Emma Navarro 6-2, 6-3 .
2023-09-21 19:30:44
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