Sierra Sierra He made history of La Grande this Wednesday and classified the Third Round of Wimbledon. The Marplatense traced a very hard match against the premises and number 43 of the WTA ranking Katie Boulterto be imposed in just over two hours of game 6-7 (9), 6-2 and 6-1. In this way, the country once again has a representative among the best 32 of the Grand Slam British for the first time since 2009, when Gisela dulko He reached this instance on the London lawn.
The 21 -year -old Buenos Aires, who occupies the 101st position of the ranking, reached the third Major of the season like lucky loser And he learned minutes before he would make his debut in the first round, where he was measured before the Australian Olivia Gadecki (103) And it was imposed on runs, 6-2 and 7-6 (8). Already with that triumph, he had taken his first great step in one of the four big tournaments. In their presentations in Roland Garros (2025) and the US Open (2024) had fallen into the debut, while in the Australian open He never exceeded the qualy.
Solana based on the Rafa Nadal Academylike one of the young world tennis projections. So far from 2025, the member of the Argentine female tennis team He rose with Three titlesall of them on brick dust and thanks to which he got into the Top 100. With that record he reached his second stop in Wimbledon, where everything is dreams to fulfill.
The first set was a battle without truce in which everything was defined in the tiebreak. After two breaks per side, they reached the tiebreaker where parity remained to the last points, but the one born in Leicester 28 years ago closed the partial 9-7 in his favor, thanks to a small advantage in the end.
In the second manga, when it seemed that I could accuse receipt of the coup received, The Buenos Aires took her best version, took advantage of the loss of her opponent’s performance and with three service breaks managed to take the match to the third set.
Already in the closing partial, the Albiceleste He continued with the same game pattern, unappealable from the background, and obtained two breaks in the first turns of Boulter’s loot to take an advantage that would be impossible to trace. With an audience that supported its representative throughout the meeting, Sierra made history for national sport.
After the match and with the pulsations to a thousand, Solana spoke to a stadium that knew how to assess the effort and forgot that his victim was a local representative. “The feeling is incredible, I knew it was going to be a difficult match, against a great player, I had to focus on myself and enjoy Wimbledonwhich is a dream and before this public, ”he said ashamed of the context.
When asked about his achievement by first defeated a Top 50he said: “I am super proud, from the beginning with my team I was confident to win this game”And he concluded his words with an anecdote that demonstrated the unexpected for her for what happens these days with her professional life:“ I lost in the third round of Qualy, and I changed three times of department and we had to change the reservation again. It is a nice problem. ”
The British of 28 years is 43 ° Currentlybut at the end of last year he reached his best ranking (23 °) and holds three WTA titles in his career: he came from eliminating the Spanish Paula Badosa9th best rack on the planet, in the debut for a 6-2, 3-6 and 6-4.
The next stumbling block – priori on Friday, July 4 – will be the Spanish Cristina Bucsa (102° del ranking individual), which is one of prominent players of the circuit in doubles (40 °). The 27 -year -old European, who reached her best Singles WTA record a year ago with the 56th position, comes from getting the Australian way out of the way Kimberly Birrel (74 °) at the premiere in two partials and then also exceeded in sets to the Croatian Donna Vekic, 22nd preclassified and 25 ° of the female ranking.
The box marks that the fourth round key will face the winner of Sierra-Buca against the winner of the duel between the German Laura Siegemund (104 °) and the North American Madison Keys (8°).
Gisela dulko He had been the last representative of the country in the third round of this Grand Slam on grass. In it 2009he fell in third round to the Russian Nadia Petrova. In it 2008he had also reached this instance with the same adverse result: it was eliminated by the Russian Elena Dementieva. The other Dulko record in that instance had been in 2006when she stumbled upon French Séverine Brémond.
Solana, who arrived at the main box as lucky losernow it will have a new personal objective, but also a historical challenge in the third phase against the Spanish nut. 21 years ago, in the 2004 edition of Wimbledon, Paola Suárez He signed the best national tennis performance when he landed at quarter finals And it was surpassed by the French Amélie Mauresmo. Suarez came from playing the fourth round in 2003, where it had been surpassed by the Italian Silvia Farina Eliaand third phase in 2000 (he lost with Lindsay Davenport).
Gabriela sabatinithe most representative Argentine tennis player in history, left several unforgettable performances in this Grand Slam About grass, with the defeat in the 1991 final against Steffi Graf in three sets as its cúmine point. But Gaby He also played the semifinal three times (1986 and 1990 Martina Navratilova; and in 1992 with graf) and another three times the quarterfinals (1987 was overcome by Graf, in 1993 by the Czech Jana Novotná And in 1995 it was eliminated by the Spanish Conchita Martínez).
