Aryna Sabalenka won the final of the Masters in Madrid. After a hard fight, she narrowly prevailed against Coco Gauff.
If the world ranking lists meets the world number of world rankings, an exciting and high -class game is actually guaranteed. What aryna Sabalenka and Coco Gauff in 6: 3; 7: 6 (7: 3) showed in the final of the Madrid Masters, tennis was at a high level, which with the Belarus Sabalenka produced a deserved winner. Sabalenka won her third title in Madrid.
Both players went to their performance limit and showed powerful tennis, coupled with a large dash of game intelligence. In the end, Sabalenka was the slightly better of two strongly playing world-class players.
Sabalenka overrun Gauff
The first set turned very quickly in the direction of the Belarusin. Gauff was able to win her first service game, but then it broke in: Sabalenka served extremely solidly and offered her opponent almost no surface.
And: Sabalenka succeeded in the second serve game of the American BreakBecause they converted the two second surcharges with direct points and put Gauff under pressure so that a double error and a forehand error followed. Sabalenka expanded the 2-1 lead with an added-to-zero service game and increased to 3: 1.
Gauff looked contested and also gave her the following impact game without gain in your own point and with another double error. After the 1: 4, the false start of the 21-year-old was perfect. Sabalenka had won 16 points in a row at that time and her dominance gave nothing good for Gauff.
Sabalenka with heavy arm
But in tennis, the momentum can change completely within a few moments and for no apparent reason. In the following serve game, Sabalenka suddenly showed weaknesses, Gauff avoided inexplicit mistakes and she succeeded in a break that was not considered possible to 2: 4. And suddenly Sabalenka wobbled. The 26-year-old got a “heavy” arm and struck attack balls that are usually not a problem. Gauff reduced to 3: 4.
Gauff tried to extend the rallies and force Sabalenka into more mistakes. But Sabalenka concentrated at the right moment and narrowly won her impact game and after an intensive fight to 5: 3. After that, Gauff’s will was broken and Sabalenka won 6: 3.
Sabalenka prevails in the tiebreak
But in the second set, Gauff was in the game right from the start. Now she was able to implement her tactic better: in her third game, she achieved a break against the increasingly insecure Belarus. Gauff served better and was able to fight for 4: 2 at 3: 2. Even after that, Gauff remained stable, increased to 5: 3 and held Sabalenka at a distance.
In the 5: 4, Gauff only had to serve to win the set. However, Sabalenka was able to use her fifth break to 5: 5. At 5: 6, Gauff even had to be one Matchball ward off, but saved himself in the Tiebreak.
There it was a balanced duel until the 3: 3 before Sabalenka pulled away and also secured the second set with a 7: 6 (7: 3).