The Spanish Carla Suárez was eliminated in the knockout stages of the Dubai Tournament after losing 5-7, 6-2 and 6-4 to Czech Karolina Pliskova, third-seeded and fifth in the world, in a match that lasted for just over two hours.
Suárez, number 27 in the WTA classification, surpassed the Czech in the first round, which until today she had won in three of the six matches they had had, but she could not avoid her reaction, nor control the effectiveness of her rival in the direct serve -10 from the Czech and 2 from the Spanish-, decisive for the resolution of the match.
After a 7-5 in favor of Carla Suárez after the first 41 minutes, Pliskova stood with a resounding 3-0 at the beginning of the second set, which was decisive to balance the score at the end of it, in which the Spanish only She was able to get close to her rival (3-2), before the Czech took the next three games.
At the beginning of the third set Carla Suárez returned to command on the court and took an initial advantage (2-0), but Pliskova responded firmly to equalize, go ahead later (2-3) and face the decisive and most fierce moments of the match , despite the fact that the Spanish broke her service and tied for 3-3.
The blank game that was then won by the Czech (3-4) and the other two in which the Spanish barely gave margin settled the duel and placed Pliskova in the next round of a tournament in which she competes for the sixth time and in which she achieved her best result in 2015 when she was runner-up.
On the day of this afternoon in Dubai the Spanish Garbiñe Muguruza will debut, third in the world and second head in this tournament, in which the American Catherine Bellis will be measured.
Carla Suárez falls to Czech Pliskova
