MADRID, 31 (EUROPA PRESS)
The Spanish-Venezuelan tennis player Garbiñe Muguruza was eliminated this Monday in the first round of the Roland Garros tournament, the second ‘Grand Slam’ of the season, after losing to the Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk 6-1, 6-4.
The one from Caracas, twelfth seed and champion in the Parisian red clay in 2016, signed for the first time in her career a farewell to the first of changes in the ‘big’ French, after a match where she was far from her best level, perhaps afflicted with physical ailments that had to be treated after clearly giving up the first round.
The double ‘Grand Slam’ champion, who arrived in Paris after an irregular gravel tour due to physical problems, never found her rhythm of play, surpassed at all times by a Kostyuk who also planted resistance at all times.
The statistics were devastating and he ruled 40 unforced errors by Muguruza, for only nine winning strokes, a slab too heavy to have any kind of option, despite the fact that he came to dominate with a ‘break’ up in the second set.
Things have already started badly for the Spanish-Venezuelan, who after wasting her option to break her rival’s first serve, saw her break hers. It was not the only one, a second one already made things impossible for the Caracas team that after conceding the hard 6-1 asked for medical assistance.
The break and the help of the physio seemed to help Muguruza somewhat, who for the first time in the whole match was able to have some regularity in her tennis. The result was a ‘break’ and a hopeful 3-1 lead. But he was not able to sustain it, with a Kostyuk who remained calm and who regained command of the duel with four games in a row to end the adventure of the twelfth favorite.
Also eliminated in her debut in the second ‘Grand Slam’ of the year was Basque tennis Lara Arruabarrena, classified from the previous phase and who lost to Russian Varvara Gracheva, 88th in the world, in straight sets 6-2, 6-3 .
