The Spanish Garbiñe Muguruza, ninth seed, agreed to the second round of the WTA 1,000 tournament in Dubai this Monday by beating, 6-3 and 7-5, the Romanian Irina Begu, present in the main draw since the previous one.
Muguruza, 16 in the world and who fell on Saturday in the Doha final against Czech Petra Kvitova, started strongly and in the blink of an eye she took a 2-0 lead after breaking Begu’s serve in the second game.
The Romanian, 73rd in the ranking, reacted and rebalanced the sleeve with a ‘break’ in the fifth, but the Spanish took the initiative again in a long eighth game to put the 5-3 in her favor and service. Muguruza did not miss the situation and closed the sleeve on the fast track (6-3).
In the second set, after two breaks for Begu and one for Muguruza, the Spanish was against the ropes with 5-3 down and the rest, but activated again to equalize 5-5, breaking the Romanian’s serve again and closing the duel in the twelfth game with the first match point available after one hour and 36 minutes of fighting.
Muguruza will play to get into the round of 16 against the American Amanda Anisimova, who shortly before beat the Croatian Ana Konjuh by a double 6-2 in the first round.
This Monday the eleventh favorite, the American Madison Keys, who beat the Taiwanese En-Shuo Liang by a resounding double 6-1, also passed to the eighth; the twelfth, the Czech Marketa Vondrousova, executioner of the Romanian Ana Bogdan by 6-4 and 6-4; the fourteenth, the Kazakh Elena Rybakina, who beat the Chinese Saisai Zheng 6-0 and 6-4; and the fifteenth, the Estonian Anett Kontaveit, who beat the Hungarian Timea Babos 6-2 and 6-1. The thirteenth seed was eliminated, the Croatian Petra Martic, surpassed the first by the French Kristina Mladenovic by 7-6 (2) and 6-4.
For his part, Serbian Novak Djokovic, who on Monday beat Roger Federar’s record by accumulating 311 weeks at the head of the ATP classification, said he feels “very motivated” to continue with his successes and share them with those who support him. .
“I am very motivated to keep going. I do not know how far that will take me and what successes I will achieve, I cannot foresee the future, but I can create the best conditions for the future to be successful and I am working on it,” Djokovic told the Serbian agency Tanjug.
“I trust that I have all the strings in my hands”
The world’s first racket assured that he is still as in love with tennis as when he first met the sport in his childhood, and that he enjoys every moment.
In addition, it is for him “a school of life”, which teaches him its advantages and disadvantages.
“I am excited to tread a new path, to see what the future brings. I believe that the successes will continue, that new big trophies will arrive. And if nothing happens, however, I will be very proud of everything I have done so far,” he said.
He also appreciated that the support of his family, collaborators and fans “gives him strength, motivation and inspiration to continue”, and that in recent days he has received numerous messages of congratulations for the new record.
“That is my greatest success: sharing this great result with so many people,” he said.
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