Emma Raducanu returned to Earth in his first contest since his surprise coronation at the USA. The british fell in straight sets before Aliaksandra Sasnovich in the tournament Indian Wells on Friday, 6-2, 6-4.
“Emma won the US Open and I lost there in the first round,” Sasnovich said. “Now everything was a little different”.
The stumble in the second-round match snapped the 10-win streak that began in New York for Raducanu, who received an invitation to Indian Wells, the combined ATP and WTA tournament that takes place in the southern California desert.
Sasnovich, a 27-year-old Belarusian ranked 100th in the world rankings, reached the doubles semi-finals last month in the US Open, where Raducanu He achieved the feat of lifting the trophy at the age of 18, after contesting the qualifying round.
In that final, she beat the Canadian Leylah Fernandez, who later defeated the French Alize Cornet 6-2, 6-3 after converting 5 of his 9 break points and 71 percent of his second serves.
For its part, Iga Swiatek it took only 71 minutes to dispatch Petra Martic 6-1, 6-3.
In 2019, the last year in which the contest had been held, Swiatek lost in qualifying. She is now the second seeded and the champion of the French Open in 2020.
Swiatek won nine of the first 10 games against Martic before the Polish star suffered two breaks and went down 0-3 in the second set.
He came back, winning the following six games to finish the duel.
“In 2019, I was not playing with confidence, but I am really very happy that things have changed now,” Swiatek said. “ANDIn the second set I lost concentration for one game and she broke my fast serve.or, but I knew I had to keep going and not stop for a second time ”.
The fourth seeded Elina Svitolina defeated Tereza Martineova 6-2, 7-5. The ninth Anatasia Pavlyuchenkova superó a Madison Keys 6-3, 6-1.
Also on Friday, the Romanian Simona Halep (11th) bowed to Marta Kostyuk by 7-6 (2), 6-1.
Victoria Azarenka advanced when Magda Linette he left with the match 7-5, 3-0. Shelby Rogers crushed Kristina Kucova 6-2, 6-2.
In the male branch, the former world number 1 Andy Murray bowed to Adrian Mannarino by 6-3, 6-2. The Briton hit five aces and hit 82 percent of his first serves against the French left-hander.
Three Argentines fell on the day. Federico Delbonis capitulated to the Japanese Yoshihito Nishioka 3-6, 6-3, 6-7 (2), and Federico Coria lost 6-3, 6-2 against the local Brandon Nakashima. For his part, the Ecuadorian Emilio gomez bowed 6-3, 6-1 to Facundo Bagnis.
The Chilean Alexander Tabilo eliminated 6-1, 7-6 (0) at the local Denis Kudla, while the Colombian Daniel Galán fell 7-6 (4), 6-3 against the German Jan-Lennard Struff.
The American Jenson Brooksby and Ernesto escobedo they won their first round matches. Brooksby surpassed Cem İlkel 7-6 (5), 6-4, and Escobedo a Holger Rune 6-4, 6-1.
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