Roland Garros – Trevisan, double center: he is in the second round and enters the top 50

Martina Trevisan is the first Italian to reach the round of 16 at Roland Garros in the second week. The Tuscany beat Australian Daria Gavrilova Saville 6-3 6-4. A result obtained with determination and which brings the blue back to one step away from the historic quarter-final reached here in Paris in the autumn 2020 edition.

The match

–

Martina Trevisan aims for the corners, plays very deep, moves the opponent from one point to another on the pitch. The break she matures in the fourth game of the first set is the logical consequence of her play. The Australian struggles, she breaks down as she follows the trajectories. Martina, on the other hand, with some small steps arrives everywhere, confirms the advantage and climbs 4-1. At 4-2 Trevisan is good and courageous to save the ball from the counter break. She goes to the net, closes a backhand volley and then again at the net she wins the point of 5-2 which then easily transforms into 6-2 of the first set. Trevisan’s push continues with the break at zero at the beginning of the second set, but she doesn’t keep it. Now it’s time to breathe, to rearrange your ideas and start the attack again. The decisive break is that of the fifth game when Gavrilova Saville hits a backhand ball destined to end up in the corridor. The swing is uncoordinated, the ball goes out. Martina thanks and goes 3-2. The sixth game is the decisive one, Martina cancels 6 break points, then snatches the serve from her rival and gets ahead 5-2.

The key

–

The tension is sky high: the Trevisan, despite a couple of runs to the net in backlash, loses the first chance to close the game by thirty. But the second is the good one: after an interminable exchange, Gavrilova Saville puts the last straight of the match in the corridor after an hour and 27 minutes of struggle. With this victory Martina Trevisan officially improves her best ranking (No. 59) entering for the first time in her career among the top 50, virtually standing around position number 45. The winner of the match between the German Angelique Kerber awaits in the round of 16 with great tranquility. , number 21 on the scoreboard) and Aliaksandra Sasnovich.