The Spanish Paula Badosathird in the WTA rankings, and Garbiñe Muguruza, tenth, celebrated on Monday that Guadalajara will host the WTA 1000 in October.
“Coming back to Guadalajara will be special, I feel like I’m at home and I want to play in front of Mexican fans. In Guadalajara they love tennis and they send it to the players,” Badosa said in a video broadcast on presentation of the tournament that will bring together 64 best players in the world October 17 to 23.
Guadalajara, in western Mexico, hosted the women’s finals last year, which Muguruza won with Badosa as the semifinalist, and now hosts the final WTA 1000 of the season, which will take place on the hard court.
“Most of Guadalajara is amazing; they are passionate, they love the sport, and I had a very good experience,” said Muguruza, referring to his success in the teachers’ tournament by losing to Estonia. Anett Kontaveit.
Enrique AlfaroThe governor of Jalisco, the state where Guadalajara is located, supported the tournament, which he described as an opportunity to defend the principles defended by the WTA, such as gender equality, and update the sports infrastructure.
“We are going to be up to the challenge,” said the politician, who promised a budget of at least a million dollars for the stadium complex that will host the competition.
The director of the Guadalajara Open, Gustavo Santoscoy, Described the reception of the world’s best 64 players as a great promise and celebrated the fact that by hosting the 1,000th Master, Mexico city was placed on the same level as other top-level cities such as Indian Wells, Miami, Madrid, Rome, Toronto and Cincinatti.
Polish Iga Swiatek, Czech Barbora Krejcikova, Spanish Paula Badosa, Greek María Sakkari and Estonian Kontaveit top the WTA world rankings today, with the first 64 to play in Guadalajara.
Source: La Verdad
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