Canadian tennis player Bianca Vanessa Andreescunumber 42 in the WTA and seeded number 1, fulfilled the predictions by winning in one hour and thirty-six minutes by 6-2 and 7-5 a Anastasia Zakharovatennis player, WTA number 186, in the round of 16 of the WTA 250 tournament at whoa hin. After this result, we will closely follow the player’s trajectory in the quarter-finals of the championship.

Match statistics show that Andreescu managed to break his opponent’s serve 4 times, got 62% of first serve, committed 4 double faults, managed to win 67% of service points. As for Zakharova, she managed to break her opponent’s serve once, achieved 57% efficiency, committed 4 double faults and won 52% of service points.

All that remains is to wait for the quarter-finals of the competition, which will take place tomorrow, Friday, starting at 4 a.m. Spanish time, and which will conclude with the confrontation between the Canadian and Ukrainian tennis player. Martha Kostyuknumber 60 and seed number 5.

This tournament takes place in whoa hin from January 28 to February 5 on hard outdoors. A total of 50 tennis players participate in the tournament and a total of 32 advance to the final phase. The players come from those who have qualified directly, from those who have passed the previous phase of the championship and from those who are invited.

A sport that lasts over time

Tennis is unquestionably a classic sport. Each year, four tournaments (called “Grand Slams”) attract all the attention of the world: the season begins with the australian opencontinue with the dirt track of Roland Garrosthen travels to London with the celebration of Wimbledon and finally ends in the USA with the U.S. Open.

The rest of the year, players compete around the world completing seasons on different surfaces: hard or fast track, clay That is grass.

Tennis was born in Europe at the end of the 18th century and since 1926 it is a professional sports, the date the tour was created. It was particularly popular among the upper classes in English-speaking countries, but is now a world sport. Divides into two categories: the male (ATP) and female (WTA) competition.

ATP

The ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals) is the association of professional tennis players which brings together players from all over the world in the men’s category.

The ATP circuit organizes several tournaments throughout the year: ATP Masters 1000 (where the winner of the tournament will get 1000 points to add to the ATP rankings), ATP 500 and ATP 250. Below these tournaments, in a lower stage would be the ATP Challenger Tour, where the future stars of world tennis compete. In addition, the association also takes care of the Grand Slams.

The fight to be the best in history is still latent among men. The Spaniard Raphael Nadalthem Serbian Novak Djokovic and the Swiss Roger Federer they compete to improve all records and win the most Grand Slam tournaments. The three players are often referred to as “big three‘ in front of the new generations or ‘Next Gen’.

These promising tennis stars have stormed onto the world tennis circuit, as in the case of the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipasfrom Italian Matteo Berretinigerman Alexander Zverev or the russians Medvedev Yes Rublev.

Novak Djokovic currently holds the record for weeks at number 1 in the ATP rankings, closely followed by Roger Federer, the legendary American player Pete Sampras, Iván Lendl and Jimmy Connors.

WTA

The WTA (Women’s Tennis Association) was founded in 1973 by the famous former tennis player billie jean king. The Californian won 39 Grand Slam titles during her active phase and is a reference and an icon for the world of tennis.

Currently, many tennis players in the female category are also fighting to stay at the top of the world tennis elite and surpass Stefanie Graff or Serena Williams. Players like the Polish Iga Świątek (Roland Garros champion in 2021), the Greek Maria Sakkari That is Paula Badosa (the first Spanish winner of Indian Wells) are fighting to stay in the famous top 10 of the WTA rankings.

In the year 2022, the Australian tennis player Asleigh Barty announced his permanent retirement from the world of tennis and ended an impressive career with several Grand Slam tournaments behind him. Now is the time for other players to take over and become number 1.