Serena Williams scored her first win in over a year by beating the Spanish this Monday Nuria Parrizas-Daz 6-3, 6-4 at the WTA National Bank Open in Toronto.
This is the second tournament he has played this season. the 40-year-old American, who I returned to competition just over a month ago at Wimbledon. The 23-time Grand Slam champion lost in three sets in the first round at the All England Club to Harmony Tan.
His last competition had been at Wimbledon in 2021, when he had to withdraw in the middle of the first match due to a Achilles tendon tear after slipping on the grass.
Williams’ first win since the 2021 French Open took her to face the winner of the duel between Belinda Bencic and Tereza Martincova.
Williams started off strong, winning her first two games with ease. Parrizas-Daz tied 2-2, but despite Williams’ struggles at certain points, the 31-year-old Spaniard was unable to be consistent in advancing. Williams found the rhythm of him, mixed with his solid touch and the distinctive power of his and managed to place each shot out of reach of Parrizas-Daz.
Williams’ efforts had the crowd screaming and at times even bowing. The American won the last three games of the first set and surged again in the second set after her rival, who is 57th in the world, went up 4-3. He withstood a game of nine draws to hold serve and level the set, then broke his next game before serving for the win.
While, Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia defeated Italian Martina Trevisan 6-2, 2-6, 6-2 and went on to the second round of the Open. the romanian Simona Halep dispatch to croatian Donna Vekic 6-0, 6-2 and the Kazakh Elena Rybakina beat the czech Marie Bouzkova 7-5, 6-7 (3), 6-1.
