MADRID, 4 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Spanish players Jessica Bouzas and Sara Sorribes have been eliminated on Tuesday at the end of the Cluj-Napoca Tournament (Romania), WTA 250 level and that is played on a hard track, after falling respectively against the Belarusa Aliaksandra Sasnovich, by (0) 6-7, 7-5 and 6-4, and before the Russian Anna Blinkova, 6-2 and 6-2.
Thus, this Transylvania open was left without a Spanish presence in its individual picture. Of the two repeater of the ‘Navy’, Bouzas was the one who battled the most and closer to pass to eighths. Having broken both the service mutually just starting the duel, the player Pontevedra returned to break in the seventh game (3-4) of the initial set.
However, his adversary matched the score on time (5-5), guiding the match towards a ‘tie-break’ where, yes, Bouzas swept a 7-0. In the second set the trend was invested, because Sasnovich had income that his opponent was neutralizing, even in the tenth game Bouzas had five match balls; But he did not consume and paid him expensive.
Just then, Sasnovich achieved breakage (6-5) and immediately consolidated it to score the second command. In the third and definitive one, despite going 0-2 below, the Belarusian resumed its good pulse a while before and tied the contest (2-2, 3-3, 4-4) until giving the key stretch in the ninth game and channel his triumph, sealed in two hours and 51 minutes.
Meanwhile, just over time and fourth lasted Sorribes in front of a lethal rival to the rest in the first measures. Breaking three times the Castellón service promoted Blinkova on the first set, and to top it off in the second he kept his skill. Since 2-1, the Russian endured without too much problems its advantage and crystallized her round of round.