The Galician tennis player Jessica Bouzas could not maintain the energy level at the beginning of the match against American Ann Li for three sets who came back against the Spanish 3-6, 6-2 and 6-4 and will face Bulgarian Victoriya Tomova in the final of the Valencia Open this Sunday.
Li, 23 years old and number 172 in the WTA rankings, defeated the player from Vilagarcia de Arousa in three sets, who came in as second favorite in the draw, 87th in the women’s rankings, and will enter this Sunday’s final to determine the champion this WTA 125 in Valencia.
Bouzas started the match very actively and took advantage of Li’s hesitation on the American’s first serve to break serve. Although Li’s powerful serve was one of the American’s main weapons, the Pontoevedra native held her serve and broke the American again, making it 0-4 on the scoreboard, but that’s when the American started to carburate.
After 1-5, the American sealed his serve for the second time and broke the serve of the Galician tennis player who played in the final stage of the last Roland Garros. However, Bouzas confirmed the set by breaking the American again and taking the first set of the match.
However, the Galician player, number 87 in the ranking, began to lose points on the first serve and, more importantly, on the second, he could not extend the streak of the first round, in which he was reliable from line. background.
So, he lost his serve in the third game of the second set (2-1) and although he managed to balance it and restore parity, he lost his serve again in a set where he only held serve in the first game , but did not have the solidity from the back of the track that allowed him to win the first round.
Li, who broke three of Bouzas’ four serves, took advantage of the Galician’s weakness to put the set on the fast track and put the score at 6-2, forcing the runner-up finalist to decide the final set.
The American extended his good momentum by breaking Bouzas’ serve in the first game of the third set, but the Galician quickly recovered and made it 1-1 minutes later to get back into the match and banish the ghosts of the second set.
In fact, she broke the second serve of 172nd in the WTA ranking by taking advantage of her second break ball with a drop shot and went 1-3, but she did not hold her next serve (2-3) and both held . their serve to 4 -4.
However, some mistakes by the Galician cost two break points from Li, who made the second chance count to go up 5-4 and win the match on serve.
Li will now face Bulgarian Tomova, who is number one in the table and defeated Russian Shymanovich in three sets on Saturday, a day that will conclude in the second doubles semifinal, which will be played by the pair formed between Australian Seone Méndez and Russian Ekaterina Yashina, and the Polish Katarzyna Piter and the Hungarian Fanny Stollar.
Source: La Verdad
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