Sorribes continues in the Monterrey Tournament

The Canadian Leylah Fernández started the defense of her title at the Monterrey Open on Monday with victory over the Slovakian Anna Schmiedlova in straight sets 6-2 and 6-2, in the first round of the WTA 250 tournament.

in the first sleeve Fernandez, 19, a US Open 2021 finalist, showed precision on her serve and did damage from the back of the court to the Slovak by breaking the second and fourth games to go 4-0 away.

The 27-year-old European adjusted her shots, improved her serve, broke a serve and came up 4-2, a reaction that the Canadian contained with a break in the eighth that made it 6-2 in the set.

Fernandez, the second seed, broke fast again in the second set in the first and fifth games and with her serve she consummated her 6-2 superiority in the set and the match.

Spanish earlier Sara Sorribes, fourth seed, beat Russia’s Kamilla Rakhimova in three sets 7-5, 6-7, 6-1.

The first set was even until heThe Iberian tennis player, number 36 in the world, broke in games nine and eleven and with his service he took the set 7-5.

Parity in the second set forced a ‘tie-break’ which the Russian won 7-2 and the sleeve 7-6.

Sorribes Tormo closed strong with a couple of breaks and won 6-1 in the third sleeve.

In another game the Colombian Camila Osorio, fifth favorite, triumphed over the Polish Magdalena Frech in straight sets 6-3 and 7-6.

In the first round, the Colombian dominated from the back of the field and he broke in games three, seven and nine to triumph 6-3.

Frech pressed in the second set, broke in the eleventh game, took a 6-5 lead, but failed to serve; the sleeve required a ‘tie-break’ in which Osorio won 8-6; 7-6 a set.

Mexican Marcela Zacarías also made it through the first round by eliminating American Harmony Tan 6-1, 6-7, 6-3.

In the first match of the day, the Brazilian Beatriz Haddad eliminated the Hungarian Panna Udvardy in three sets, 1-6, 6-1 and 7-5.

In other duels this Monday The British Heather Watson passed the round of the 32 best with partials of 6-3, 2-6 and 7-6 over the German Jule Niemeier and the Bulgarian Viktoriya Tomova, who defeated the French Diane Parry 6-4 and 6-0.

The Monterrey Open hands out a prize pool of $235,000.