Heads and tails for Sara Sorribes and Aliona Bolsova at Roland Garros

This Thursday’s day started with a lime and another sand for Spanish tennis. Sara Sorribes qualified for the third round after defeating Croatian Petra Martic 6-4, 6-1 in a duel that was up to 4-4 in the first set.

At that moment, the woman from Castellón put in another device to surprise her rival. Five straight games made it 6-4, 3-0 on the scoreboardtoo heavy a slab for the world number 38, who was only able to react to a break in the fourth game.

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Sorribes never lost his center and continued to dominate from the bottom of the track to regain the initiative and put the cherry on top of a sensational fight that would take him to the third round.

The player from Castellón arrived in Paris with renewed enthusiasm after overcoming an injury that kept him on the sidelines for half a year. A desert crossing that, he himself admits, led him to consider his continuation in tennisbut now it seems too far given the stability he has regained on the track.

This is the second time in his career that Sorribes has played in the third round of a Grand Slam, something he already did at the 2021 US Open.when he fell against the British Emma Raducanu, who at 18 years old and coming from the previous stage ended up winning the tournament in general surprise.

In the third round, Sorribes She will face Kazakh Elena Rybakina, who easily defeated Czech Noskova 6-3, 6-3.

Wimbledon winner in 2022 and finalist in Australia this year will come into the rivalry with Sorribes after achieving his seventh straight victoryall of them on clay, after winning the tournament in Rome two weeks ago.

Another Spaniard who played on Thursday morning had worse luck. Aliona Bolsova showed her face all the time but ended up with Slovakian Anna Karolina Schmiedlovaworld number 100, 6-3, 6-4.

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The Catalan, who lost the last game of the qualifying phase in this edition, was saved by the organizers at the last momenta chance she took to win a round, by defeating fellow Slovakian Kristina Kucova.

But against the experienced 28-year-old Schmiedlova, who will play in the third round in Paris for the third time in her career, bent over in 1 hour 44 minutes.

Bolsova, 25 years old and 131 in the world, admitted before the duel that after falling in the previous round he considered everything he could achieve in this edition of Roland Garros “a gift”.

The tennis player experienced a very difficult moment in his career when surprised everyone at the 2019 Roland Garros where he chained six consecutive winsthree in the preliminary phase and three in the final draw, where she defeated rivals such as the Romanian Sorana Cirstea or the Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova, before falling against the American Amanda Anisimova.

The Spanish player admitted that the vertigo of that season affected his thinking and the results were worse in the following. In this edition of Roland Garros, living in a more mature way, he regained part of the illusion, although his tour ended in the second round.