Alizé Cornet won her first match of the year 2023 on the WTA circuit on Monday by defeating the American Fiona Crawley in two sets (6-0, 6-2), who benefited from a wild -card, during the first round of the WTA tournament in Charleston (South Carolina).
The French number 2 lost in the first round at the Indian Wells tournament in early March against Russian Evgeniya Rodina (6-2, 7-5). “Worn out”by her own admission, at the end of the last season, she had cut it short by hanging up her racket in October 2022. In 2023, she had won only one match against the Argentine Maria Lourdes Carle in as part of the United Cup, a mixed competition held in early January in Australia.
With this first victory of the year, the 33-year-old Niçoise is guaranteed to climb to 66th place in the world rankings, before her next match on Wednesday against Russian Anna Kalinskaya or Ukrainian Anhelina Kalinina (seeded n ° 11) .
