Muguruza shipwreck in the first round of Roland Garros

MADRID, 22 May. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Spanish tennis player Garbiñe Muguruza has said goodbye at the first change of Roland Garros, second 'Grand Slam' of the season, after falling this Sunday in her first round debut to the Estonian Kaia Kanepi (2-6, 6-3 , 6-4), a result that jeopardizes her presence in the 'Top 10' of the WTA ranking.

The Spanish-Venezuelan, winner in Paris in 2016 and who dominated the duel 6-2 and 2-0, wasted the set and the advantage 'break' in a new fade to black on the clay court tour, as already told happened both at the Mutua Madrid Open and in Rome. As of 2022, she has only won seven matches in nine tournaments.

All in a duel in which he survived the six break balls he faced in the opening quarter, where he used a 'break' in the third game and another in the seventh to get ahead in the match. A break in the opening game of the second set, confirmed in the next one, augured a positive outlook for the number ten in the world.

However, after 3-1, Muguruza was erratic and spiraled into losing the remaining games of the set, allowing Kanepi to tie the match. She still resisted three new break chances in the last set, but succumbed in the fourth, in the ninth game, which was enough for the Estonian to take the victory in just over two hours.

Kanepi's rival in the second round will be the Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia, who defeated the Spanish Cristina Bucsa in three sets (6-3, 1-6, 6-2). The tennis player born in Chisinau started the duel 2-0, but the South American neutralized it with a 'counterbreak' with which she started a series of five games won in a row.

Bucsa survived four set points and managed to break her opponent's serve in an eternal eighth game, but she responded with a new break with which she closed the set.

Already in the second, the Spanish managed to tie the contest by allowing Haddad Maia to sign a single game, but two breaks in the third and final round condemned him after two and a quarter hours of play.