The German Tatjana Maria reached the quarterfinals of the WTA 500 Guadalajara Open Akron presented by Santander on Wednesday, when she defeated a fellow veteran, Rebecca Marino of Canada, 6-3 7-5 in one hour 30 minutes, with the 19-year-old Nikola Bartunkova, who is an All-Czech, who is an All-Czech, who is an All-Czech, who is an All-Czech, who is an All-Czechova, who, an All-coun, who is an All-coun, who is an All-counterova, who is an all-counterova, who is an all-counterovavava-3, who is an all-counterovavavavavavavaovavaovavaova. 6-2.
It was a good match, she is a very challenging, powerful player, I knew she had to give everything, from the first to the last point. I am happy with my performance. I stayed focused on every point. She is so powerful that I knew that I had to be there, and that’s what I tried. It didn’t go well at the start of the second set, but I tried to stay there and decided to fight for each point. Tatjana Maria
“It was a good match, she is a very challenging, powerful player, I knew she had to give everything, from the first to the last point,” said Maria. “I am happy with my performance.
“I stayed focused on every point. She is so powerful that I knew I had to be there, and that’s what I tried. Things didn’t go well at the start of the second set, but I tried to stay there and decided to fight for every point.”
It is the 3rd time this season that Maria has reached the last 8, after he has won the WTA 500 Queen’s Club championships and made the 4th in Bogotá.
The 38-year-old continues to prove that age is not an obstacle to maintaining competitiveness.
The first set went the German road and used her greater aggressiveness with plaque and deception to frustrate the 34-year-old Marino, who was confronted with an opponent who practically came back that she threw at her.
Little by Kleine, Maria became more confident and got the benefit, which exerted the Canadian increasing pressure.
Although Marino won the first 3 games of the second set, Maria responded to the level of the score, and while the Canadian then took the following two games, the German finally broke in the 11th and finally took the game.
Nikola Bartunkova defeated Darja Vidmanova in 2 sets and was the first to continue to the quarters in the Pan American Center of Zapopan, in the opening match of the day.
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Nikola Bartunkova defeated Darja Vidmanova in 2 sets and was the first to continue to the quarters in the Pan American Center of Zapopan, in the opening match of the day.
Vidmanova is of Russian descent, born in Moscow and is now Czech, while 19-year-old Bartunkova, ranked on 228, a Junior Wimbledon finalist in 2023 and got a wildcard in the main drawing here in Mexico.
Bartunkova won the first set in 44 minutes with only one break at the start of their all-tszech duel and won 80% of her first portions, compared to 67% by the 22-year-old Vidmanova, who made the main drawing as qualification.
The teenager started the second with a break and consolidated for 2-0, before he broke again in the 5th game to go up 4-1, an advantage that she did not let.
Lucrezia Stefanini passed former US Open Champion, Sloane Stephens, in 3 sets in the last of the 1st round races that were suspended at night due to rain and completed on Wednesday.
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The last of the 1st round matches was also completed on day 3, with Lucrezia Stefanini in Italy past the former US Open Champion, Sloane Stephens, 6-4 4-6 6-1, after 2 hours and 23 minutes in a match that was suspended at night due to rain and was completed on Wednesday.
Stephens broke in the 4th game, but was 1-3 lower, but when Stefanini went 4-1, the American made things closer, got 4-5 and got the chance to deliver, but was broken again and let the set fall to Italian.
At the start of the second, Stephens played better and took a 3-1 lead with a series of 3 games.
With the score on 5-3 in favor of the American, the competition was suspended when the rain arrived, and when it resumed the next day, Stephens consolidated her advantage to use the set and force the decision maker.
At the start of the third, Stefanini broke 2-0, which led to a cry of frustration of Stephens, who recovered himself sufficiently to earn a break-back chance that she could not convert.
The Italian broke again for the 3-1 and Stephens could not recover, because Stefanini completed a series of 4 games in a row to close the deal, and a 2nd round meeting with Poland’s Magdalena Frech, the no. 4 seed and title defender, Thursday.
32-year-old Stephens, who is ranked as high as No. 3 in the world, but now is not 1,051, has her 5th defeat of the year ago and has to win a competition this season.
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