MADRID, 19 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish tennis player Sara Sorribes surpassed this Monday her debut in the tournament in Palermo (Italy), in the ATP 250 category and which is played on clay, after overcoming the Romanian Ana Bogdan (2-6, 6-4 and 6-2) in a difficult match, while the also Spanish Marina Bassols and Rebeka Msarova were not so lucky and said goodbye after losing to Irina Begu and Shuai Zhang, respectively.
Sorribes did not have an easy debut in Palermo, but he knew how to suffer and will be in the second round, after winning a very even match against Bogdan in three sets, which made things very difficult for him. The Romanian started the duel with a quick 0-2, but the Valencian grew, very little by little, and took advantage of her first break ball and equalized the first set (2-2). However, from there the Romanian gale began, which closed the first quarter with a forceful and solid 2-6.
The Spanish, number 41 in the world, tried to wake up in the second set, but Bogdan punished again with a painful 0-3. But this did not finish killing Sorribes, who hid behind powerful and precise winning shots that allowed her to turn it around to close the second quarter 6-4 in the first ball of the set. The start of the final set was postponed due to the heat, which Bogdan did not like, receiving a ‘warning’ that put Sorribes up 2-0, who continued to dig into the Romanian wound, out of the match, to complete the comeback. She will face the French Leolia Jeanjean, number 151 in the WTA ranking.
For her part, Marina Bassols, 22, fell to Romanian Irina Begu (6-3, 4-6, 6-3). The first set was very even, until halfway through the set, the world number 45, she increased her tennis rhythm to break the Spanish serve, thanks to a high intensity that the number 211 of the world could not follow. ranking. The Spanish recovered in the second set, but the experience of the Romanian allowed her to close the third and final set, to accentuate the bad one of Blanes, who this year has not passed any first round in a WTA tournament.
Masarova also lost against the Chinese Shuai Zhang, after two ‘tie-breaks’ (7-6 (3) and 7-6 (3)) that condemned the Spanish. The World No.173 paid for her tough debut at the Palermo tournament, when she needed three sets to shake off Seone Mendez in qualifying. Zhang, 33 years old and number 36 in the ranking, shot gallons to overcome the pressure and advance to the second round.