Sara Sorribes enters the third round of the WTA 1000 in Rome

MADRID, 10 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Spanish tennis player Sara Sorribes is already in the third round of the Rome tournament, in the WTA 1000 category and which is played on clay, after winning this Friday 6-3, 1-6 and 7-5 against the Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova after two hours and 23 minutes of meeting.

The Castellón native beat the world number 21 and continues her good form after reaching the round of 16 at the Mutua Madrid Open, where she won the doubles title with her compatriot Cristina Bucsa.

After a first set in which she began dominating with a break from the beginning, the Spanish number one won 6-3 in the first set, but in the second, the great level of the Russian with her serve, with the who won one hundred percent of points with first serve, was unapproachable for the Castellón native, who conceded three breaks.

The final set went to Sorribes, who managed to break his rival’s serve in the first game, although it was of little use to him, because the first six of the set went to the returners. The outcome came in the eleventh game, with the score at 5-5, and the Russian serving to secure the tie-break.

There, the Spaniard was accurate to take advantage of one of the four break balls available to her and then close with her service her pass to a third round where she will face the Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, seed number 9 in the Roman tournament. .

2024-05-10 13:05:24
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