The Guadalajara WTA 1000with a prize of two million 527,250 dollars, started this Monday with the victory of the Belarusian Victory Azarenka 6-4, 6-2 about russian Elina Avaneseyan.
Azarenka imposed conditions on her serve and performed well in key moments to access the second round where she will challenge the Spaniard Paula Badosafirst favorite “Paula is a great player, it will be a great fight”Azarenka said.
Those who fail are also Petra Kvitova, Belinda Bencic or Sloane Stephens. Kvitova beat American Bernarda Pera 6-3 and 7-5, while Benzic had to work harder to defeat Leylah Fernandez 7-5, 6-7(10) and 6-3. In its part, stephens won 6-0 and 6-2 over Linda Fruhvirtova.
In other first-round matchups, the Canadian Bianca Andreescu defeated the Swiss Jil Teichmann 6-2, 6-4, the Chinese Lin Zhu defeated the French Alizé Cornet 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, the Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk 6-1, 6-3 against Belarusian Aliaksandra Sasnovich and the Belgian elise mertens6-3, 6-2 to American Asia Muhammad.
For its part, the Colombian Maria Camila Osorio defeated Ekaterina Alexandrova of Russia, 15th seed, 6-4, 7-6(8), and qualified for the second round. Mexican Fernanda Contreras was unable to advance, clearly defeated by the Australian Ajla Tomljanovic 6-2, 6-1.
Furthermore, the Russian Lyudmila Samsonova beat Estonian Kaia Kanepi 6-1, 7-5 and Canadian Rebecca Marino, and American Ann Li 6-2, 7-6(2).
The event comes before the Fort Worth women’s tournament, which was won last year by the Spanish Garbine Muguruzaabsent at this time from Guadalajara due to physical discomfort.
Source: La Verdad
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