MADRID, 9 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish tennis player Cristina Bucsa was the only survivor of the first day this Wednesday of the Indian Wells tournament (United States), the first Masters 1,000 and WTA 1,000 of the season and who left the eliminations in the men’s team of Bernabé Zapata, Jaume Munar and Roberto Carballés.
Bucsa, classified from the previous phase, got into the second round after getting rid of another rival who also had to pass this first frame as the English Katie Swan, whom she defeated in two sets 7-6(6), 7- 5 after two hours and a quarter of the game.
The player born in Moldova, who will now face the American Coco Gauff, sixth seed, raised a set point in the ‘tie-break’ that decided the first set and six in the second, where her rival had 5- 3 and serve and later 0-40 to the rest with 5-4.
Bucsa gave the only joy of the day for the ‘Armada’ who saw how their first three tennis players to enter the fray were eliminated. The Valencian Bernabé Zapata could not beat the Frenchman Ugo Humbert (6-2, 7-6), although he had a serve to force a third set, the Balearic Jaume Munar fell to the Chinese Yibing Wu after more than two hours and 40 minutes (6 -7, 6-0, 7-6) and Roberto Carballés from Tenerife lost to the Japanese Taro Daniel (6-1, 7-5).