Sensation in the first round of 16 of the San José tournament with the qualification of the Polish Magda Linette at the expense of the Croatian Petra Martic, seeded number 6. She will face Daria Kasatkina, scorer of Caroline Garcia.
During the night from Wednesday to Thursday, Caroline Garcia bit the dust on the San José court in the 2nd round. Broken, the French lost the first set 6-3 after 35 minutes. She woke up later, during a disputed set of 1:10 where the two players lost their service games on several occasions (5-7). Nonetheless, Russia’s Daria Kasatkina had the final say in the final set, closing the affair 6-3 after a 2.32 hour battle. In the next round, the number 4 seed will face the surprise Magda Linette.
The Linette sensation
The first qualified for the quarter-finals in San José is called Magda Linette. The 29-year-old Polish player swept in the first round in Tokyo by Aryna Sabalenka was however far from favorite this Wednesday in the round of 16 against Petra Martic, better ranked than she (33rd) and seeded number 6 in the tournament. It is however the 45th world which took the upper hand (7-5, 7-6, 1h54 of play) on the Croatian reached the round of 16 of the US Open in the last two editions. Despite a break quickly conceded in the first set, Linette turned the tide to lead a round to nothing before starting a second set just as hooked as the Polish could have won more easily, however if she had not let Martic return to height when she had broken again and led 4-2.
Dropping a bomb of a drop shot ????@MagdaLinette | #MubadalaSVC pic.twitter.com/TDfyzmEz4S
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Everything was therefore decided in a decisive game, very close again, and which saw the lower ranked of the two players once again having the last word (7-5) on her first match point while this time it was Martic who seemed to have the better game (4-2 then 5-3). Linette could find Caroline Garcia in the quarterfinals. Everything will depend on whether the Frenchwoman, also eliminated from the Olympic Games, manages to bring down one of the title contenders in California, the Russian Daria Kasatkina, seeded number 4.
SAN JOSE (United States, WTA 500, hard, € 476,476)
Title holder (in 2019): Saisai Zheng (CHN)
2nd round
Mertens (BEL, n ° 1) – Mladenovic (FRA)
Tomljanovic (AUS) – Putintseva (KAZ, n ° 8)
Kasatkina (RUS, n ° 4) bat Garcia (FRA): 6-3, 5-7, 6-3
Linette (POL) bat Martic (CRO, n°6) : 7-5, 7-6 (5)
Konjuh (CRO, Q) bat Riske (USA, No. 5): 6-1, 6-4
Zhang (CHN) – Keys (USA, n°3)
Collins (USA, n°7) – Stephens (USA)
Liu (USA) – Rybakina (KAZ, n ° 2)
1st round
Mertens (BEL, n ° 1) – Bye
Mladenovic (FRA) bat Han (CdS, Q) : 6-4, 6-4
Tomljanovic (AUS) bat Anisimova (USA) : 1-6, 7-5, 7-5
Putintseva (KAZ, n ° 8) bat Vekic (CRO) : 7-5, 6-3
Kasatkina (RUS, n ° 4) – Bye
Garcia (FRA) bat Bektas (USA, Q) : 6-3, 6-4
Linette (POL) bat Pattinama Kerkhove (PBS, Q): 6-3, 6-3
Martic (CRO, n ° 6) bat Sevastova (LET) : 6-3, 6-3
Risk (USA, No. 5) bat Vandeweghe (USA) : 6-3, 6-4
Konjuh (CRO, Q) bat Bouzkova (RTC) : 7-5, 3-6, 7-5
Zhang (CHN) bat Raducanu (GBR): 6-3, 6-2
Keys (USA, n°3) – Bye
Collins (USA, n°7) bat Rogers (USA) : 6-4, 6-3
Stephens (USA) bat McNally (USA) : 6-4, 6-2
Liu (USA) bat Yastremska (UKR) : 6-3, 4-6, 6-4
Rybakina (KAZ, n ° 2) – Bye
