Badosa crashes before Martic’s serve and Muguruza passes round

Struggling to advance to the first round against Ukraine’s Lesia Tsurenko, Badosa started the game solid and aggressive, but paid a deep price. fall in the second set and he couldn’t raise his head against a Martic who was stubborn to his serve.

The Spanish champion this year in Sydney fell for the second year in a row in the second round after surrendering to Russian Varvara Gracheva last year.

Badosa, other than

In the third match of his career, against his rival Martic canceled five match balls a year Badosa, who was on his way to the semifinals in Cincinnati, had to come back before clinching the first set in the tiebreak.

The Spaniard, who gave 83% of the points in the first set, entrusted his first serve to a Martic, who again served powerfully and showed his purest technique with high-level shots.

The draw came after Badosa canceled his four intermediate balls in the ninth game. and the Spaniards confirmed his brilliant figures by sudden death. With a total of fourteen wins, one against Lesia Tsurenko of Ukraine, in the first round, she is the top winner this year.

He punished the first set with a spectacular backhand hit and, satisfied with the mental strength demonstrated in the first hour of the competition, he put a finger to his head.

Martin’s reaction

However, competing in only the second hard surface tournament of the year, Martic she didn’t lose her confidence and her reaction was strong. He canceled two break balls for Badosa in the third game and evened the duel 6-1 in just half an hour.

The inertia of the game has changed and Martic has used his momentum to use his advantage in the decisive set, where he has a 7-4 record this season.

Badosa, who showed a great 9-4 performance in the third sets,He got the first timeout ball 1-0. but he forgave a comfortable defeat and paid the price for that mistake by taking a break in the next game.

Martic took a 2-1 lead and confirmed the time-out with a competent service return, including a strong serve winner, retained at fifteen.

A 14-2 partial is fatal for Badosa

The Croatian scored fourteen out of 16 and Badosa showed clear signs of disappointment. He blamed himself for the points he played tactical “nonsense” and Martic punished that weak moment with a new timeout that brought him 4-1.

The Spaniard managed to come back from 3-5 in the decisive set in his duel with Martic in Cincinnati last year, but this time the Croatian made no mistakes.

He entrusted himself to his service to secure his 6-2 win and meet Belarusian Viktoria Azarenka in the third round.

Badosa bid farewell again to New York in the second round, and this tournament remains the only ‘big’ tournament he never passed this round.

Muguruza returns

Spaniard Garbiñe Muguruza won 6-0, 6-4 against the young Czech this Thursday. Linda Fruhvirtova, At 17, she advanced to the third round of the United States Tennis Open, where she will face Czech Petra Kvitova.

Inside tenth anniversary After his debut for New York, Muguruza played a borderline first set, winning 6-0 in less than twenty minutes and losing just five points.

Spanish, ten in the ranking A former WTA number one has displayed the highest level of tennis this year against an opponent who made his debut in a ‘major’ main draw.

Muguruza regains her feelings after a year could not compete and his best result was the quarter-finals in Doha.

“Obviously, I don’t take any wins lightly, especially this year. It’s been a year where I didn’t win a lot, so very happy for achieving this victory”, he recognized the Spaniards after defeating Denmark’s Clara Tauson in the first round.

If the first set was comfortable, the latter quickly went uphill Reacting to Muguruza, she passed 4-1 in a few minutes with Fruhvirtova.

Czech is ahead 40-0. Muguruza was on the serve, but he couldn’t use his chance to win the match and his opponent hurt him.

Chain five consecutive games and closed his round pass with a substantial 6-4.

finished the game with 25 winning shots and only six allowed Fruhvirtova, who was celebrating one of the best performances of the season.

Now an extremely difficult appointment awaits him. KvitovaAfter the withdrawal of Ukrainian Anhelina Kalinina, she advanced without playing.

There will be a conflict between the two winners’large‘. Muguruza has a Roland Garros record in 2016 and a Wimbledon record in 2017, while Kvitova is a two-time Wimbledon champion in 2011 and 2014.

Kvitova got five wins six previous conflicts, one of them exactly at the US Open (2017). The match will be played this Saturday.