The Spanish tennis player Marina Bassols (n.105 WTA) this Tuesday wasted the opportunity given to him Cluj-Napoca (Romania) after losing to the local team Jaqueline Christian by 6-3 and 6-2, after recovering from the previous stage due to the withdrawal of the Romanian as well. Miriam Bulgaru.
The native of Girona said goodbye to the hard court of Transylvania with an unexpected result, sinking his own serve, with three losses recorded: one in the first set, in the fourth game; and two in the second; in the third and fifth games.
Jaqueline Cristian will face Danish Clara Tauson in the round of 16, who defeated Argentine Nadia Podoroska on Monday.
Also, German Tatjana Maria, second seed, will continue the fight for the title after completing this first round with a victory over Chinese Bai Zhuoxuan by 7-5 and 6-3, within an hour and 25 minutes.
The first set, which began with an uncontrollable reaction from Bai, became the beginning of his demotivation and for taking the German, who will meet his rival this Wednesday in the confrontation between the Italian Sara Errani and the American Caty McNally .
Elina Avanesyan, 21, is the tournament’s sixth seed. The Russian began her second participation with a victory over German Tamara Korpatsch, 6-4 and 7-6(3), in a match marked by too many losses of serve (15 in total).
In the next round she will play against Latvian Anastasija Sevastova, 656th in the WTA ranking, who surprisingly achieved a comfortable victory over Romanian Andreea Mitu (n.216) by 6-2 and 6-3.
The French Alizé Cornet, meanwhile, will have to maintain the frenetic pace in the next round, as she will face the top seed, the Dutch Arantxa Rus.
Cornet achieved her first victory in the Romanian tournament against the Belgian Yanina Wickmayer (7-5, 4-6 and 6-3), who left her with no options after conserving ten out of thirteen chances on the break he had, while Wickmayer wasted four of his seven choices at the break.
Tuesday will close in Cluj-Napoca with a partner awarded to the Colombian Camila Osorio: the Czech Karolina Pliskova (n.78 WTA), who resisted the pressure of her opponent until the last moment.
Pliskova, who reached the number one ranking in 2017, defeated Austrian Sinja Kraus in just two hours, 6-4 7-6(6).
Source: La Verdad
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