Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, second favorite, defeated American Kristi Ahn 7-6 (5), 6-4 today and qualified for the third round of the Open tennis de Monterrey endowed with a prize pool of $ 226,750 (212,424 euros).
Pavlyuchenkova, sixteenth in the ATP ranking, came out as the favorite against a rival who arrived from the qualifying tournament and occupies the 206th place in the world; the Russian made good predictions at the start by breaking in the second game, but from there Ahn showed great tennis.
With a lot of mobility on the court and a powerful drive, the American raised the level, broke in the tenth game and forced sudden death that the Russian won 7-5.
In the second set Pavlyuchenkova, triple champion in Monterrey, began to attack the net more, but she also found a rival capable of answering everything to which she could only break the serve in the ninth ‘game’ to set the course of the match .
“It was a difficult match, she came from the ‘qualy’ but she won in the first round and knew that something had to bring, I’m focused and I’m going game by game,” said the Russian who in the third round will face the Hungarian Timea Babos, winner today by 6-3, 6-2 of the British Naomi Broady.
Today, third-seeded French Caroline Garcia passed over Argentina’s Nadia Podoroska, whom she defeated 6-0, 6-3 after making a difference with her serve and many more tools than the South American.
Garcia will play her next match against Czech Tereza Martincova, who won 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 against American Julia Boserup.
Tomorrow in the continuation of the second round, the German Angelique Kerber, the world’s first racket, will face Mandy Minella from Luxembourg, the Spanish Carla Suárez Navarro against her compatriot Sara Sorribes, the British Heather Watson against the Russian Ekaterina Makarova and the Croatian French Donna Vekic Alize Cornet.EFE
Pavlyuchenkova, sixteenth in the ATP ranking, came out as the favorite against a rival who arrived from the qualifying tournament and occupies the 206th place in the world; the Russian made good predictions at the start by breaking in the second game, but from there Ahn showed great tennis.
With a lot of mobility on the court and a powerful drive, the American raised the level, broke in the tenth game and forced sudden death that the Russian won 7-5.
In the second set Pavlyuchenkova, triple champion in Monterrey, began to attack the net more, but she also found a rival capable of answering everything to which she could only break the serve in the ninth ‘game’ to set the course of the match .
“It was a difficult match, she came from the ‘qualy’ but she won in the first round and knew that something had to bring, I’m focused and I’m going game by game,” said the Russian who in the third round will face the Hungarian Timea Babos, winner today by 6-3, 6-2 of the British Naomi Broady.
Today, third-seeded French Caroline Garcia passed over Argentina’s Nadia Podoroska, whom she defeated 6-0, 6-3 after making a difference with her serve and many more tools than the South American.
Garcia will play her next match against Czech Tereza Martincova, who won 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 against American Julia Boserup.
Tomorrow in the continuation of the second round, the German Angelique Kerber, the world’s first racket, will face Mandy Minella from Luxembourg, the Spanish Carla Suárez Navarro against her compatriot Sara Sorribes, the British Heather Watson against the Russian Ekaterina Makarova and the Croatian French Donna Vekic Alize Cornet.EFE