Five of the eleven best players on the WTA Tour according to the current world ranking will miss the third round of the 1000 tournament in Miami. It is a very open circuit, with changing trends, with many alternatives, and one more week the favorites suffer to continue on the road.
The first heavy blow came before it even began. the polish Iga Swiatek, overwhelmed in Indian Wells semifinals by Kazakh Elena Rybakina, he took sick leave, an infection lasting several weeks. He continued to play until he chose to focus on his health because the pain did not subside.
The Tunisian fell off the track this Friday Ounce Jabeur and the Greek Maria Sakkari, seeded fourth and seventh respectively, joining the list of early byes already filled by the Russian Daria Kasatkina (8) and the Russian Veronika Kudermetova (Eleven).
Jabeur’s thing was coming as he has not yet fully recovered from the knee surgery he underwent after the Australian Open. Far from his form, perhaps risking too much in the comeback that had already been made in Indian Wells, he collapsed from the start. He doesn’t know Russian Varvara Gracheva, from the previous stage and won by a resounding 6-2 and 6-2.
More than expected, he was the first, of Maria Sakkarisemifinalist at Indian Wells, where he lost to the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka. In a marathon duel of three hours and four minutes, he was the victim of one of the rare displays of the former US Open champion, a top tennis player, the Canadian. Bianca Andreescu.
The American, 22 years old and world number 31, won 5-7, 6-3 and 6-4. He has already gone to war with Iga Swiatek in Indian Wells, losing 3-6 and 6-7 (1). And Andreescu is already a finalist in the competition in 2021. Without physical problems, the Canadian’s situation is different.
Another Rybakina-Badosa in the third round
Among the favorites yes it continues Elena Rybakinathe queen in Indian Wells and that, as in the third round of the California desert, coincides with Paula Badosa, who will try to get revenge. The game, this Saturday, Spanish Sunday morning before 01:30.
Source: La Verdad
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