Three of the best five seeds in the women’s lottery were upset at the Italian Open in Rome on Saturday. On Sunday, Aryna Sabalenka and Coco Gauff did not happen again.
The best seed Sabalenka defeated the former Australian open winner Sofia Kenin 3-6, 6-3, 6-3, while Gauff, the fourth seed, defeated Poland 7-5, 6-3 Magda Linette. Both Sabalenka and Gauffes go to 16 rounds.
Sabalenka needed two hours, 13 minutes, a personal best-23 break opportunity, turned seven.
In the first set, Seed 31 was Kenin, which seized the service breaks and won three games in Break Point.
However, Sabalenka from Belarus started another equipment in the second set.
Im I was really hard for myself, Sab Sabalenka said after the match. “It was a difficult match – the incredibly tennis played in the first set. It was a great fight and it was very happy to get this match.”
In the second set, Sabalenka turned the tables in Kenin and broke his service three times. And when he rose 2-0 in the third set, he progressed and broke Keenin at the seventh break point of the second game.
Sabalenka, who defeated Gauff last weekend and won the title of the Kil Courts in Madrid, is looking for his first championship at the Italian Open. And on Saturday, Seed 2 IgA Swiatek, No. 3 Jessica Pegula and Madison Keys 5 after the losses, Sabalenka has the inner part of the title of Rome.
First, the seed number 24 from Canada on Sunday should pass Marta Kostyuk from Ukraine, which defeated Leylach Fernandez.
Gauff won Linette for the third time in his career in his career in the fourth round in the Italian Open. In the next round, the Russian Veronica Kudermesetova will meet 5-7, 6-0, 6-1 winner Emma Raducanu, the former US open champion.
In the first set, Gauff fought and created 24 mistakes for nine winners. However, depending on 5-5, Gauff won eight points from nine points to demand the first set. In the second set, he won the fifth match point.
In the other action, Canada’s Bianca Andreescu, Kazakhstan 6-2, 6-4’den seed 11 Elena Rybakina’yı overturned. In the fourth round, he will play the winner of the match between Qinweng Zhang, number 9 from China and Magdalena Freech from Poland.
-FELD level media
