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Tennis.-Badosa and Sorribes advance to eighth in Ostrava

MADRID, 20 (EUROPA PRESS)

The Spanish tennis players Paula Badosa and Sara Sorribes have advanced to the round of 16 of the Ostrava (Czech Republic) tournament, in the WTA 500 category and played on hard court, after defeating the Russian Varvara Gracheva (6-2) in their premiere on Monday , 6-2) and Anastasia Zakharova (6-3, 6-3), respectively.

Badosa, an Olympic diploma in Tokyo 2020, was able to take revenge on her executioner in the second round of the US Open, who failed to break the Spanish player’s service on any occasion, and awaits in the next round the winner of the duel between the Romanian Sorana Cirstea and Estonian Anett Kontaveit.

The Catalan, in fact, did not face any ‘break’ against in a first set that she won after breaking the Russian’s serve twice, in the third and seventh games. Already in the second, he went ahead 5-1 and, although he wasted four match points, he did not miss in the fifth.

For her part, Sorribes beat Zakharova to meet the reigning Olympic champion and third seed of the Czech tournament, the Swiss Belinda Bencic. The number 36 in the world started strong with a 5-0 in the opening set, and although the Russian neutralized one of her ‘breaks’, she closed the set in her favor.

More even was the second, in which he managed to win the fifth game over the rest before Zakharova responded with a ‘counterbreak’. However, he scored three consecutive games to close the match in just over an hour and a half of play.

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