Australian Open: An uplifting tournament for Garbie Muguruza to return to lite

“I have a good idea of ​​where my game should go, what I have to improve,” said the Spaniard, who jumps to the 16th place of the rnking. Insist on the importance of continuing to work physically

• Australia final.
  

  Kenin stops the resurrection of Garbie Muguruza and wins his first major
  

• Champion
  

  Who is Sofia Kenin, the 'unknown' who defeats Garbie Muguruza?
  

I think I am in a good process. I think I felt my game much better than before. I think I have to continue like this, keep working physically. These events are really long, so you must be strong. Minutes after losing in front of a large Sofia Kenin the Australian Open final, Garbie Muguruza It was a bit of conviction. The American of Russian origin won 4-6, 6-2 and 6-2, but the reflection of the already champion in Roland Garros and Wimbledon points in the right direction.

I have a good idea of ​​where my game should go, what I have to improve. These are the situations that really give you information, he added. Muguruza arrived in Melbourne without being among the 32 series heads and leaves with the number 16 on the back, rearmed for a course that has started much better than what you expect. There are, as she assumes, severe corrections to be made, since the player we saw in the last part of the match looked too much like the one that gave rise to clamorous disappointments in the last two years.

Muguruza could not complete an amazing resurgence, but has left three top ten on the way: Elina Svitolinafifth in the third round Kiki Bertens, ninth, in eighths, and Simona Halep, third, in the semifinals. I lost when I had won my favorite consideration. Kenin, 14, finished in the semifinals with the Australian Ashleigh barty, number 1 in the world, and cut in eighth the flight of Coco gauff, but lacks the conditions and experience of Garbie in matches of the highest rank.

The Spanish-Venezuelan insists on the imperative of physical work, where he bases the evolution of his game, more consistent thanks to the greater mobility at the bottom of the track, the search for alternatives that do not go exclusively to solve the points for the brave. Kenin tested the draft of the renewed Garbie.

Kenin's good reading

Few players like who appear on Monday number 7 of the rnking handle the scalpel with such skill. To his tactical intelligence joins an irreducible character. He had shown it to Barty, returning from a break adverse in each set, and he did it again in crucial moments, such as the 0-40 from which he escaped with 2-2 in the second set, to give the confrontation a decisive blow in the next game.

For the first time in his four Grand Slam finals, Muguruza met a non-consecrated tennis player, a new star within the succession of different Grand Slam tournament champions. He had lost with Serena Williams at Wimbledon 2015, he had defeated her a year later at Roland Garros and had ended up with Venus on the London grass in 2017. At a different time in his career, with 26 years, already with some war wounds, he I found a rival who faced with great ease an unknown challenge.

Something contributed the world's number 1 to Kenin's success, since service, a cornerstone in the construction of his game, became a rmora for her. It can be almost anecdotal to deliver the game with a double foul, but not that there were eight accumulated, which gave his serve five times and only won 31% of the points with the second. It was also not very accurate when it comes to taking advantage of its possibilities of breakage: only two of 12 before a woman who, it is true, offers the best of her in the face of this type of setbacks. So Garbie was dissolving, ending with 45 unforced errors, almost double those committed by Kenin, 23.

Almost three years later, Garbie has re-entered the direct struggle for a great, solvent solvent to believe in her again. One of his problems to date has been its irregularity. The depth of the change in the new open stage with Conchita must be seen in the upcoming tournaments.