In the annoying wind of Lausanne, Clara Burel went through all the states to qualify for the first final on the main circuit of her young career and, a nice accomplishment, to enter the top 100 at the end of this accomplished week. “I can’t believe it, I’m still shaking”, she said immediately after the victory.
We know the obstinate Breton. After beating Fiona Ferro in the quarter-finals, she proved it again in the semi-finals against a very irregular Caroline Garcia. Led 7-5, 2-0, forced to be strapped to the ankle after poor support at the start of the third set, the Breton found the resources to derail her opponent. The young Frenchwoman, who has a lot of character, often finds the resources to get out of situations where she is poorly engaged, she knows how to mix small game and good attacks, knows how to resist in defense, but still suffers from a certain lack of consistency and lack of consistency. has not yet a service to match his ambitions (25% of points gained on his second ball in the first set). She too often gives her opponent the opportunity to gain the upper hand from the returns.
Garcia lost track
Nonetheless, she was able to ignore these weaknesses to turn the situation around, despite the stroke of fate of this right ankle which twisted to 1-1 in the third set when she had just won seven of the last eight games played. Unperturbed, able to run to bring back a damping on a break point at 4-2, the former world junior No. 1 gave a lesson in serenity to her elder who ultimately lost her faceoff eight times.
What fragility and strange empty times at Garcia, well forced to sometimes howl her frustration in this match where she has totally lost the thread … At first conquering against Burel by attacking her on her small second balls and in Finding effective areas with a good quality of strike, the Lyonnaise led 4-1, before experiencing a first hole all the more surprising after such a successful start. Led 5-4 after a volley of unforced errors of all kinds, Garcia again let go of his blows, including three consecutive winning returns to return to 5-5, before taking off (7-5).
But the former world No.4 was not going to recover from her second shot less well as she led 2-0 in the second set, surely upset by the fact of letting go of her serve by surrendering on the sixth ball of break from an endless game. Clara Burel will find in the final the winner of the match between Zidansek and Zavevska.
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