Wimbledon champion and runner-up in Australia, Rybakina never reached week two of the US Open
The Kazakh Elena Rybakina, 4th of the WTA, continues her martyrdom on the courts of the US Open without ever reaching the second week of the tournament and was surprised by the Romanian veteran Sorana Cirstea, 30th, who, at 33, reaches the 2nd week in New York for the first time.
Closing the day’s program at the Louis Armstrong, Cirstea fought for 2h49 closing the score on 6/3 6/7 (6-8) 6/4 after making four aces against two of the Kazakh, who committed 55 unforced errors against the 42 of the Romanian, who shot 33 winning balls against 30 of Rybakina.
The two tennis players began the match studying each other, while Rybakina tried to impose her game by pushing her rival away from the baseline and entering the court, Cirstea played her game from the base, extended exchanges, which led to a crucial break in the 4th game, he opened 4/1 drawing from zero and succeeded.
2022 Wimbledon champion Rybakina took a risk and broke in the second round but came back into the sequence and forced the Romanian to salvage a four-point lead in the sixth game and pushed the set into a tie-break. In it, in an error-rich dispute, the Kazakh needed three setpoints to tie the match.
The third set was characterized by nervousness and oscillations of the two tennis players who played breaks between the 2nd and 4th game, with the Romanian in the lead with 4/1 and he returned to exchanging breaks oscillating a lot between the 7th and the 10th game, with the Romanian serving the set in the 9th game and closing the victory well with a break in the standings in the second leg.
Looking for a place in the quarterfinals, Cirstea faces the Swiss Belinda Bencic, 15th, who beat the Chinese Lin Zhu, 44th, 7/6 (-1) 2/6 6/3.
Source: Terra
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