MADRID, 17 (EUROPA PRESS)
The Spanish-Venezuelan tennis player Garbiñe Muguruza qualified for the quarterfinals of the Berlin tournament, which is scored for the WTA and is played on grass, after beating the Kazakh Elena Rybakina this Thursday with work 6-4, 6-3.
The one from Caracas had to battle for an hour and 43 minutes against her young rival and before the heat that hit the track, and that complicated things even more for both, although the double winner of ‘Grand Slam’ was again very firm with his service to control the 21st in the world, who signed eleven direct aces.
It was an even match in which the 2017 Wimbledon grass champion almost always led the way on the scoreboard and was able to play with more patience at key moments like those at the end of the second heat.
The Spanish-Venezuelan managed to break in the fifth game and take the lead (4-2), but Rybakina returned the break in the eighth to restore balance (4-4). However, Muguruza got another ‘break’ in a row and did not forgive with his serve to close the first set.
The second had a similar script, with the sixth seed breaking his opponent’s serve just after saving a breaking ball with his. Rybakina did not give up and squeezed a Muguruza who threw service to save the delicate situations of the sixth and, above all, eighth game, where he raised up to three break options.
That seemed to affect the young Kazakh, who wasted 40-15 to have put more pressure in the next service of the 13th in the world and ended up giving up her serve again to deliver the ticket to the quarterfinals to Caracas, who will look for the semifinals against the French Alizé Cornet who gave one of the surprises when she eliminated the Canadian Bianca Andreescu.
