Garbiñe Muguruza starred in a happy return to Madrid, and almost no wear, with a first-round victory against the Australian Ajla Tomljanovic of 7-5 and 6-2 in an hour and 36 minutes.
This Friday is a double comeback for Muguruza: in Madrid, because last year he had to retire at the last minute due to injury, and on the circuit, where he left in March for Indian Wells due to shoulder pain.
The one-on-one scoring with his rival lasted until 5-5. Muguruza discovered his most varied repertoire of aggressive shots in the eleventh game and broke Tomljanovic’s serve, which immediately led to his victory in the first set in less than 50 minutes.
At 2-1 for the Spaniard in the second set, the Australian retired to the locker room accompanied by an assistant and remained there for five minutes. He returned with a bandage on the upper part of his left thigh and, from what he saw afterwards, physically exhausted. He already had the reduction and he lost the white game (3-1).
The Spanish 4-1 and 5-2 lead was followed by one last attempt at fighting his rival. But Muguruza stopped the push and continued the attack, along with an undisputed partner, ending the first chapter of his season in the tournament.
Wait for Stephens or Kalinina
The Caracas-born player offered a good impression about his goal to settle pending accounts in Madrid: despite participating in the previous eight editions, the 2018 round of 16 is his highest level. She was third in the world and third seeded, but fell to fourteenth seeded Daria Kasatskina.
On his way to a better result he will now find himself, in the round of 32, with the winner in the match he will face at the end of this day against American Sloane Stephens and Ukrainian Anhelina Kalinina. At first it was tied with two wins, in the second it hadn’t played yet.
Source: La Verdad
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