The Spanish Sarah Sorribes began this Tuesday the search for his second consecutive title in the Zapopan Open with a triumph by 6-4 and 6-1 about the american Katie Volynets which placed her in the round of 16. Sorribes, thirty-second on the world list, needed 2 hours and 6 minutes to overcome the opposition of the 20-year-old North American, who broke the Hispanic’s serve twice and forced her to come back.
In the eighth game of the first set, Sara broke, tied 4-4 and headed for victory in almost an hour and a half. With good impacts with her backhand and improved serve, Sorribes was superior in the second set, in which she showed an effectiveness of 80% with her first serve, took advantage after 1-1 and was already unstoppable. “It was complicated. The first set lasted more than an hour and 20 minutes, that says it all; the nerves and the tension of the first round always exist, but I am happy with how I ended up playing”, said the Spanish.
In the phase of the eight best, the Spanish will face the winner of this Tuesday between the Polish Magdalena French, 97 in the world, and the Mexican Renata Zarazúa (121). Sorribes’ victory came after his compatriot Rebeka Masarova was eliminated by double 7-5 by the French Cloe Paquet, in a match in which the winner was finer in the decisive points and took advantage of the double faults of the Spanish. In another result, the Colombian Camila Osorio, fourth seed, defeated the Bulgarian Viktoriya Tomova 6-4, 6-3 and agreed to the phase of 16, in which she will face the American Hailey Baptiste, winner 6-3 , 6-3 of the Slovakian Viktoria Kuzmova.
In other results, Czech Marie Bouzkova eliminated Japan’s Misaki Doi, seventh seed, 4-6, 7-5, 6-4, and China’s Xinyu Wang, led 6-4, 4-6, 6-1 over the Hungarian Panna Udvardy. This Tuesday the British Emma Raducanu, champion of the US Open, will debut against the Australian Darie Saville, in one of the most anticipated matches of the first round.
The tournament, which takes place on hard court, and has a prize pool of $262,727, is played a week before the Monterrey Open, which will feature several of the best players in the world.