Muguruza starts her way back to the Top-10 with victory in Tokyo

Garbiñe Muguruza is already in the quarterfinals of the WTA 500 in Tokyo after defeating the Greek Despina Papamichail, number 213 in the ranking, by 6-4 and 6-2 in the round of 16 of the tournament in one hour and 26 minutes of game. A meeting in which Muguruza went from less to more and in which the Spanish returned to compete after the US Open.

Muguruza, in full mission to return to the Top-10 of the ranking after losing positions after the American Grand Slam, asserted her status as third favorite of the tournament in a match in which things did not start well for her, since Despite breaking Papamichail’s serve in the first game of the match, he lost his serve to love on his first serve of the match. A new break in the fifth game allowed Muguruza to take advantage and, despite having two set balls to rest at 5-4, the Spanish tennis player closed the first set with her serve to the third set ball she had to put the 6 -4.

in the second set Muguruza put the direct break in Papamichail’s serve in the first game with a blank game and broke the Greek’s service again in the third game to not fail with her serve and get 4-0 in favor. A distance that Muguruza managed to maintain by drawing love games with his service and, in this way, closing the set and the match with the first match point that he had 6-2.

In the quarterfinals, Muguruza will face the winner of the round of 16 match between the Chinese Xinyu Wang and the winner of the first round match between the Kazakh Elena Rybakina and the Russian Liudmila Samsonova. A serious test for a Muguruza who wants to return to the Top-10 in Tokyo.