Cristina Bucsa, world number 79, produced her most convincing performance on Sunday at the start of the WTA Masters 1,000 in the Mexican city of Guadalajara by sweeping France’s Kristina Mladenovic 6-0 in the doubles.
Against a player ranked number one in the world in 2019, Bucsa maintained superiority on his serve and with several breaks in each set, he disarmed Mladenovic, who suffered one of his worst defeats on the circuit.
In the top 32 phase, Bucsa will face the winner between the Egyptian Mayar Sherif, the fourteenth favorite, and the Italian Camila Giorgi.
Among the notable results was the victory of Czech Karolina Pliskova, seeded sixteenth, 7-5, 6-2 against Japanese Ena Shibahara.
Pliskova, who became the best in the world in the summer of 2017, broke her rival’s serve in the eleventh game of the initial set and in the second she was superior with five aces, as part of her best serve.
Canadian Leylah Fernández, a finalist at the 2021 US Open, made her debut with a 6-3, 6-1 victory over American Asia Muhammad.
American Sloane Stephens, US Open champion in 2017, defeated her compatriot Ann Li 7-5, 6-4. Sloane started with a break down, but broke Li’s serve in the fifth game and then in the eleventh to take the first set. In the second, his serve improved and the win was confirmed.
The WTA of Guadalajara is the penultimate Masters 1,000 of the season, it is played on a hard court with a prize pool of two million 788,468 dollars.
Source: La Verdad
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