Sports Writing, Jan. 1 (EFE) of 6-0 and 5-2.
The Spaniard who has become world number one and who has won two Grand Slam titles, Wimbledon in 2017 and Roland Garros in 2016, intends in 2024 to regain the level of competition she lost last year, which ended without hit.
However, his showing in the new year was not encouraging and he held the 2022 line. He let slip a game he had won. The pupil of Conchita Martínez put the duel against the Canadian on track, whom she never beat – she lost in Indian Wells in 2019 and Miami 2021 – and found herself one game away from victoire.
Andrerescu, who had his best year in 2019 with success at the US Open, Indian Wells and Toronto, turned the tide. This gradually improved as Muguruza faded from the game.
In the end, the 22-year-old Canadian, ranked 46th in the standings, won 0-6, 7-6(3) and 6-1 in two and a quarter hours and will play in the second round against the winner of the clash between the American Amanda Anisimova or Russian Veronika Kudermetova, seeded fourth.
In the day’s other match, Kaia Kanepi of Estonia came back to beat Belarusian Aliaksandra Sasnovic 4-6, 6-1, 6-4. She will face the winner of the match between the rough Ekaterina Alexandrova or the Czech Marketa Vondrousova in the second round.
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