The Greek Maria Sakkarisecond favorite of Guadalajara WTA 1000enters the final this Wednesday, where he will face the American Caroline Dolehidebeat Frenchwoman Caroline García 6-3, 6-0.
Sakkarithe ninth ranked tennis player in the world, needed one hour and eleven minutes of play to advance for the second time in a row in the final match of the Mexican tournament.
Sakkari escaped a break point early in the duel and from then on imposed conditions with García’s best weapon, the serve. In the opening round he won 81 percent of the points won on the first serve and broke in the fourth game to take a lead he never relinquished.
Garcia, ranked eleventh in the world, made seven unforced errors and his shots were out of step, which the Greek took advantage of to stay ahead.
In the second, María started in the best possible way, with two breaks that put her ahead 3-0. In the fourth game the Frenchwoman emerged again, however, she gave up three break points and Sakkari cruised to victory by going 4-0 up.
In the fifth game Dolehide was ahead, but he threw two balls at 30-30, which was equivalent to signing surrender. In lively tennis, Sakkari held serve and won 6-0.
“I said, I’ll go out and smile, I’ll enjoy myself like I haven’t done in a long time, but there’s one more game and tomorrow I’ll go out too. I haven’t felt the same emotion anywhere in the world, so I say that Guadalajara is my second home,” said Sakkari,
Sakkari will compete for the title this Saturday with the American Caroline Dolehide47th player in the world, who went from less to more and won the 7-5 and 6-3 to his countrymen Sofia Kenin (53).
Kenin was broken in the third game of the first set, but his rival improved his serve, breaking in the eighth game to level the score at 4-4 and breaking his rival’s serve again in the twelfth to take the first set.
In the second the story is similar. Sofia made it 1-0 on Dolehide’s serve, calmly leveling the sixth game and breaking in the eighth, when Kenin served to level the match.
Source: La Verdad
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