The Italian Martina Trevisan was a ball return machine on Wednesday to beat the Tunisian 6-7(4), 7-5, 6-3 Ons Jabeur, first favorite, and reach the quarterfinals in Master 1,000 from Guadalajara.
Trevisan, 54th racket in the world, from less to more against the seventh in the ranking of WTAand, after losing the first set in a tiebreaker, he insisted and, full of determination, won.
It took Ons one hour and 16 minutes to win the first set in heartbreak. In the second game, the African made a break, but the Italian immediately recovered, where a battle of long points began, with no respect for Trevisán in the status of his first-seeded opponent.
Jabeur, a Wimbledon finalist, won the tie break 7-4 and took the first set, after giving up eight set points.
Trevisan never lost concentration and again pressed with great mobility on the court. Ons was broken in the fifth game, but could not be confirmed. He did it again in the ninth, but in the tenth and twelfth the Italian deciphered his rival’s serve and forced a third set.
Martina is the closing star; Although Jabeur held her serve, her strength seemed low against a woman who was loud in every way, shouting her punches and turning the court into a dance hall.
In the sixth game Trevisan broke, but he didn’t confirm: He didn’t care, he got past Ons and broke his serve again to be superior to his serve in the eighth game and achieve the most important victory of his professional career career.
This Thursday, in the top eight phase, the Italian will face American Carolina Doilehide, 6-1, 6-2 winner of eighth-seeded Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova.
Moments before Trevisan’s victory, Belarusian Victoria Azarenka, ranked tenth, defeated Russian Veronika Kudermetova 6-2, 6-1.
After being superior in the initial set, ‘Vika’ suffered a break in the first game, however, in the second she fought for 21 minutes to recover.
Kudermetova never recovered; Her serve was broken in the fourth and sixth games, giving victory to the Belarusian, who in the quarterfinals will face French Carolina García, third favorite, winner 7-5, 6-4 of American Hailey Baptiste.
Colombian Emiliana Arango, 180th in the world ranking, was confirmed as the surprise of the tournament, by beating American Taylor Townsand 7-5, 1-6, 6-4 and will now play with Greek María Sakkari , second seed, who eliminated Italian Camila Giorgi 6-2, 6-2.
In other round of 16 results, American Sofía Kenin defeated sixth-seeded Lithuanian Jelena Ostapenko 6-4, 7-5, and Canadian Leylah Fernández defeated American Emma Navarro 6-2, 6-3 .
This Thursday, the quarterfinals will be held:
– Quarter-final program of the Guadalajara Master 1,000:
– Leylah Fernández (CAN)-Sofia Kenin (USA).
– Victoria Azarenka (BLR-10)-Carolina García (FRA-3).
– Martina Trevisan (ITA)-Caroline Dolehide (USA).
– Emiliana Arango (COL) – María Sakkari (GRE-2).EFE
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Source: La Verdad
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