Croatian tennis player Ana Konjuh (WTA-338) continued to achieve a series of major victories in the WTA 1000 Championship in Miami. In the third round on Wednesday, she defeated the current champion of Poland’s Iga Swiatek Roland Garros (WTA- 16th) After 2 hours and 14 minutes of battle, 6:4:2:6, 6:2
For the 23-year-old Croatian national team member, this is the first time since the 2017 Wimbledon Tennis Open that she has won three wins in a WTA tournament and entered the quarter-finals of the Miami Championship. The road was led by Latvian Anastasia Sevastova (WTA-57th). Her third seed Romanian Simona Halep (Simona Halep) handed over the game due to a shoulder injury. She did not score 16 games.
Konjuh played very well against 19-year-old Pole, and scored in the third game. Sviatek recovered the loss in the next game, but the Dubrovnik player broke the opponent’s serve again in the fifth game, which was enough for her to enter the first set in a solid game.
In the second half, the fifth inning proved to be crucial, in which Konjuh missed four goals. After that game, the Pole won the next three games and thus won the decisive game.
The knight glowed again inside. Sviatek lost his serving seat for the first time in the third game and lost again in the fifth game, while Kang Jiu defended the advantage without difficulty and achieved a huge victory.
Darija Jurak also won the women’s doubles match. In the first round, Serbian tennis player Nina Stojanović defeated Kaitlyn Christian of the United States and Alla Kudrjavceva of Russia 6:2, 6:3. ).
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