Rebecca Masarovaafter almost undefeated Swiss Viktorija Golubic, 6-1, 3-6 and 7-6 (7), qualified for the quarter finals of WTA Guangzhou (China)in a match that lasted two hours and twenty minutes.
With this victory, in addition, Masarova (n.64 WTA) equaled her win against Golubic (n.106), who won it almost seven years ago in the semifinals of Gstaad (Switzerland), the only precedent between the two.
Masarova’s victory was very hard fought, despite the fact that it was achieved very easily in the first set (6-1), after two service breaks, because Golubic responded quickly and, in the second set, got a favorable 3 -0 which allowed him to level the contest and force a decisive third.
There, Masarova knew in the decisive moment, the tenth game and on the Swiss’s serve to win the match after the Spaniard’s serve was broken in the fifth, saving three match points, returning the bankruptcy and taking the set to a ‘sudden death ‘ which he made himself by saving two new match points.
She reached the quarterfinals, where she will face the Polish Magda Linette, whom she has never faced before.
Source: La Verdad
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