Debacle of favorites on a day full of surprises at the WTA in Valencia

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The third day of BBVA International Valencia Open was full of surprises, as the three leaders of the series who entered the battle were removed, as well as the Spaniards Rebecca Masarova.

The WTA125 tournament played at the Sporting Club de Tenis de Valéncia on clay offers a marathon round of 16 days due to the proximity of the matches, where the four matches played follow a similar pattern, the favorites won the first set and then suffered a comeback from their rivals.

The second favorite for the title, the Russian Varvara Gracheva, could not escape the dynamics of the day in the final match of the day and after scoring the first set a resounding 6-0 He surprised the next two by Bulgarian Viktoriya Tomova who scored the set 6-3 and 6-1.

the russian too Anastasiya Potapova (fifth seed) was caught in a controversial match by Austrian Julia Grabher who became a first quarter-finalist after winning 5-7, 6-3 and 6-4 and showed that he is a clay court specialist, a place where he has won all seven ITF titles to his credit.

Even more surprising is the loss of Slovakian veteran Kristina Kucova, sixth seedwho, despite an easy score in the first set 6-1, saw how Swedish Mirjam Björklund was able to redirect and solidify the match, as she had already shown in the previous round against Aliona Bolsova, to take the next two sets and the battles 6 -4 and 7-5, in a marathon battle.

The Spanish Masarova faced Chinese Xiyu Wang, from the previous stageand despite the win in the first set 6-4, he was unable to impose his role as favorite and the Asian player returned in the next two sets by double 7-5.

The round of 16 matches will end on Thursday, in which they will participate Nuria Párrizas, first seeded to face Ukrainian Katarina Zavatskaand Leyre Romero who will face Hungarian Rék Luca Jani.

Source: La Verdad

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