Belarusian tennis player Aryna Sabalenka was placed on the brink of number one on the WTA list, which was commanded by the Polish Iga Swiatekon her victory, for the third time, at the WTA 1000 Wuhan Open (China) after defeating the Chinese in the final this Sunday Qinwen Zheng in three sets (6-3, 5-7 and 6-3).
This year’s winner of two Grand Slams, the United States and Australia, will have to bring out her best repertoire to defeat the Olympic champion in Paris (7th in the WTA), fueled by public support.
With her fourth title of the year, Sabalenka is 69 points behind Swiatek on the world list, who has not competed in the last of the ten WTA 1000 tournaments on the women’s calendar.
With the re-release of the final of the past Australian Openthe Belarusian, 26 years old, and the Chinese, 22, developed a high-level game that extended the match for more than two and a half hours.
In the first set, Sabalenka was more solid and consistent from the start and took advantage of Zheng’s failures on serve, one of her strong points, to break her serve and secure the set.
Far from throwing in the towel, the Chinese player stood up to Sabalenka in the second, with both playing a quality game that fueled the uncertainty of the outcome.
Sabalenka was the first to break serve, although it was the Spanish-trained player Pere Riba He recovered and managed to go 5-3 with service in his favor.
The Belarusian withstood the pressure to level at five and that’s when the local tennis player brought out his best tennis to add the next two games and take the set that lasted an hour.
In the final round, physicality and breakdown affected Zheng, who lost two straight serves (0-3) against his opponent’s momentum. The match seemed to be on track, although an incredible point where he achieved a ‘break’ (1-3) and which put the house on its feet gave him courage.
Zheng did not take advantage of the new breaking ball to level at three and gave Savalenka a wing to maintain the gap and secure her third title in Wuhan after 2018 and 2019.
Source: La Verdad
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