Carla Suarez wins Zhang and meets with Kvitova in Qatar

Carla Suarez broke by way of on the Qatar Open in Doha by defeating China’s Shuai Zhang, 31 of the world, 7-5 and 6-Zero on Monday and rating his fourth consecutive victory over the Chinese language participant.

The Spanish champion of this event in 2016, season in which he reached his greatest rating with the sixth place in the world (now it’s 70), will face in the second spherical, with one other winner of the competition, the Czech Petra Kvitova, which received the title two years later by defeating Garbiñe Muguruza in the ultimate.

Exactly Kvitova went to Carla's celebration to look at how he labored the Canarian participant and from the stands took be aware.

Carla, 31, and in her final season on the circuit, used her expertise and confidence that gave her three earlier victories in opposition to Zhang, to which he has not yielded a single set in 4 matches to resolve the match in 72 minutes.

The duel was a carousel of service breaks in the primary set, with seven in whole. Carla took benefit of her security in the twelfth to shut the partial in 46 minutes.

Within the second set, the remainder of the Spanish ended up sinking Zhang, who yielded his three consecutive companies. Carla didn’t grant a single alternative with his and closed the match on the second alternative.

The Spanish will now have the chance to defeat Kvitova once more in these tracks, one thing that occurred in the Quarterfinals of 2015 (3-6, 6-0 and 6-3). Their clashes mirror a 6-6 draw, with the Spanish successful the final in New Haven in 2018 (6-3, 0-0 and abandonment).