MADRID, 10 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish Nuria Párrizas will be Paula Badosa’s first rival in the Indian Wells tournament (United States), the first WTA 1,000 of the season, while Pedro Martínez became the first Spaniard to advance in the Masters 1,000 men’s draw.
The player from Granada secured a tennis player from the ‘Armada’ in the third round of the Californian event after beating the Italian Elena Cocciaretto in two sets 6-3, 7-5 in her debut. The Andalusian dominated the first set with some comfort, but in the second she found herself with more problems because she was ‘break’ down, although she managed to recover the disadvantage and break with 5-5 to sentence her pass.
On the other hand, her compatriot Rebeka Masarova, who had accessed the main draw from the previous one and who could not accompany her after losing to the American Peyton Stearns, invited by the organization, in three sets 4-6, 6-4, was not so lucky. , 6-4.
On the other hand, in the men’s draw, Pedro Martínez achieved the first victory of the ‘Armada’ in the Masters 1,000 after defeating the Swiss Marc-Andrea Huesler in a disputed match 7-6 (4), 3-6, 6- 4 after two hours and 20 minutes.
After winning the first set, the Valencian player gave up the second and was 4-2 and served from his rival in the third. There, and after not having had a single break ball in the entire match, he redid himself to get two ‘breaks’ at the key moment and get his ticket to the second round where he will face Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime, eighth. favorite.
For his part, the Barcelona tennis player Albert Ramos said goodbye in the first round of the tournament when he lost to the Serbian Alex Molcan clearly in two sets 6-3, 6-2 and after not having a single opportunity to the rest, aspect in which he hardly created problems for his rival.