A smile the size of the Florida coast, arms in the air and a kiss beyond the clouds. This is the celebration of Martina Trevisan, who in the “Miami Open presented by Itaù” gained access to the quarterfinals of a WTA 1000 for the first time in her career.
The 29-year-old left-handed woman from Florencen.24 in the ranking and n.25 in the seeding, she succeeded beating Latvian Jelena Ostapenko 63 63, WTA No. 22 and 24th seed, already a finalist in 2018 of the tournament with a prize pool of $ 8,800,000 which is being played on the hard rock courts of Hard Rock Stadium (the “home” of the NFL’s Miami Dolphins) and that SuperTennis broadcasts live and exclusively. Ten years after Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci, the Tuscan tennis player becomes the sixth Italian to land among the best eight players in Miami after Raffaella Reggi in 1989, Silvia Farina in ’98 and Tathiana Garbin in 2007.
This result it also projects Trevisan virtually to 20th place in the WTA rankings, which would thus improve his best ranking to n.21 reached at the beginning of the season. Between the blue and the semifinals on hard courts in Florida there will now be the winner of the match between the Kazakh Elena Rybakina (n.7 WTA and n.10 on the board), fresh from 10 consecutive victories, and the Belgian Elise Mertens (n. 39 of the ranking) who has lost two of the previous three.
