For one reason or another, Garbiñe Muguruza has not been the player who dominated and was champion of the WTA Finals last November for a long time. After a hopeful start to the season (she was a quarter-finalist in Sydney and Doha), the Spaniard got into a hole from which she has not yet been able or able to get out. This Thursday, in the last match of the day of the WTA 1,000 of Canada, lost in the round of 16 6-1 and 6-3 in 63 minutes against Belinda Bencic, the day after winning more for attitude than game against Estonian Kanepi. Because Garbiñe’s problem is tennis. It is not known if she lacks or if the one she has no longer serves her against rivals who know her well and know how to plan matches for her.
The fact is that the 25-year-old Swiss and 12th in the world, winner of the tournament in 2015, when she was 18 and current Olympic champion, was able to beat the eighth favorite and will face this Friday (01:00, Teledeporte) in the quarterfinals against the Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia, who dropped the number one, Iga Swiatek.
The meeting had very little chitchat, especially in a first set that started 5-0 for Bencic, who threatened with the donut. Garbiñe did not serve well and returned worse. Despite that setback, she tried in the second round and improved a lot on serve. But the difference was that she did not take advantage of the three break options she had and her rival converted the four she had. End of story. The Canadian Masters is left without Spanish. The five that were there are already on their way to Cincinnati.
