Tennis, Wta Miami: Bronzetti fairytale, fly to the third round and conquer the top 100

And shut up Lucia Bronzetti is in the third round of the WTA Miami, the third 1000 of the season (combined with the second ATP Masters 1000 of 2022) with a prize pool of 8,369,455 dollars, which is being played on the concrete fields of the plant. Hard Rock Stadium.

No derby

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There was no expected derby with Camila Giorgi (wrist problem for her), and the 23-year-old Rimini from Villa Verucchio, n.102 WTA, fished out as lucky loser, took her chance in full, managing to beat without too many problems another lucky loser, the Swiss Stefanie Voegele, 139 of the world: 6-2 6-1 the final result. There was a game until the 2-2 of the first set, then Bronzetti took off, starting from the break of 3-2, obtained with a wonderful backhand diagonal, and this shot has a very specific meaning for Lucia, since last year, before putting on 3 WTA quarter-finals (Palermo, Lausanne and Portoroz), she had really complained about the crisis of her backhand, which now seems to have been resolved.

Blue climb

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For Bronzetti, in short, a splendid confirmation, after having beaten the Australian Alja Tomljanovic, n.39 in the ranking in the first round, with the icing of having canceled a match-point in the tie-break of the second set, thus seizing the first victory in a main draw of a Master 1000 (at the first participation), the first success on a top 50 in career and practically securing the entry into the top 100: something not obvious, far from it, given that until recently ago the blue was well beyond the 300 position in the world. Twelve months ago she got around in $ 15,000 tournaments, then the final in April in Bellinzona: from there, something changed.

Kalinskaya or Pliskova

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Returning to the match against Voegele (it was the first confrontation between the two), Bronzetti was very good at holding up in the first games of the match, when the Swiss seemed to be minimally on the ball, but after the break at 2-2 the blue she took off, with an eight-game run to zero that practically gave her the game, which ended in an hour at 20 minutes with a score of 6-2 6-1. In the third round the blue will face the winner between Kalinskaya and the number 6 seed, Karolina Pliskova.