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Caroline Garcia qualified for WTA Masters after Sabalenka loss in Guadalajara

Virtually 5th, at the moment T, in the race for the Women’s Masters, in which the eight best players of the 2022 season will participate, from October 31 to November 7 in Texas, Caroline Garcia can no longer be exceeded by more than three players. , from now on.

The 29-year-old Lyonnaise, who narrowly won on Tuesday evening when she entered the WTA tournament in Guadalajara, against the Canadian Rebecca Marino (6-7, 6-3, 7-6), is therefore assured of its maintenance in the Top 8 next Monday and its second participation in the Masters, five years after the first, of which it had reached the semi-finals, in Singapore, in 2017.

Eleven players for the last three places

This qualification is consecutive to the elimination, Wednesday, in the second round of the Mexican tournament, of Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, released by Russian Liudmila Samsonova (6-4, 2-6, 6-2). Sabalenka was following Garcia in the race for the Masters, and will therefore no longer be able to overtake the Frenchwoman.

From now on, Caroline Garcia and the American Coco Gauff, who precedes her by one rank at Race 2023, are certain to accompany Iga Swiatek, Ons Jabeur and Jessica Pegula to Texas, in about ten days. The last three places will be decided between Daria Kasatkina and Aryna Sabalenka, the two best placed for the moment, and a group of nine players who can still arithmetically invite themselves to the party by Sunday, according to the results recorded in Mexico ( Sakkari, Kudermetova, Keys, Bencic, Badosa, Collins, Ostapenko, Samsonova and Rybakina).

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