the castelonense Sarah Sorribesplayer number 47 in the world rankings, surpassed like a storm to Russian Varvara Gracheva (73), 6-2 and 6-1, in the round of 16 of Istanbul WTA, of which the Spanish are the seventh seed.
Sorribes started by providing his service, but he recovered right away and cornered his rival in four straight games. He even had time to break the Russian’s serving for the third time before taking the opening set.
In the second set, Sorribes ’superiority was even more evident, with another three breaks proving his passage to the quarterfinals, where he will face the winner in the clash between Croatian Petra Martic and Russian Anastasia Potapova.
Both players met once before, last year in Tenerife, where the Muscovites won 6-4, 5-7, 7-6 (4).
Belgian Elise Mertens, 23 in the WTA rankings, was the first favorite of the Istanbul tournament draw, a WTA 250 with a purse of 251,750 dollars in prizes and played on clay.
Source: La Verdad
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