Cristina Bucsanumber 78 in the world ranking, He lost this Tuesday in the first round of the Hong Kong Open against the sixth seed, the Italian Martina Trevisan (n.42), who won 7-5 and 6-2.
Trevisan sealed his victory after one hour and 36 minutes against, after the Spaniard, who was born in Moldova, was less effective in his service.
The third confrontation between two tennis playerswhich was again won by the Italian, who has twice reached the quarterfinals at Roland Garros (2020 and 2022).
Bucsa lost five serves -three in the first set and two in the second- was enough for the sixth favorite on Hong Kong’s hard court to advance to the round of 16, where she will face the winner of the duel between Kazakh Anna Danilina and the Polish Magdalena Frech.
The day, which has not yet reached its final conclusion, has already led to several tennis players in the round of 16. Therefore, the Australian Priscilla Hon got her place after defeating, by double 7-5, the ‘host’ who is Eudice Chong.
So far, the most surprising was the defeat of the 8th seed, the French Varvara Gracheva, who lost to the Russian Kamilla Rakhimova, 3-6 and 2-6.
Russian Mirra Andreeva, just 16 years old, and Czech Katerina Siniakova, head to the round of 16 after ending the path of their rivals, the Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska and the Chinese Xiyu Wang, respectively.
Source: La Verdad
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