Garbiñe Muguruza says goodbye in the first round of Australia

Euskaraz irakurri: Garbiñe Muguruzak estreinako kanporaketan esan dio agur Australiako Irekiari

The tennis player Garbine Muguruza he was fired in the first round of the australian openfirst grand slams of the season, after wasting their advantage at the decisive moment and losing this Tuesday against the Belgian elise mertens (3-6, 7-6(3), 6-1).

muguruza he gave up again in his first game of a major tournament, as he has in six of the last 14 grand slams played since Wimbledon 2019, confirming their worrying start to 2023, with three defeats, five in a row since last September.

All in a match in which the finalist in Melbourne in 2020 and who dropped to number 73 in the WTA ranking on Monday, managed to get ahead thanks to two breaks in the first set, which neutralized the one achieved by Mertens.

Both tennis players exchanged breaks in the first games of the second round, in which muguruza he found himself with a golden opportunity to close the game when he managed to get 6-5 with serve. However, his opponent canceled the occasion and ultimately took the set in the tiebreaker.

It was the end of muguruzamentally broken and only able to win her first serve of the final set before she Mertens win the next six games to conclude the contest after just over two and a half hours of battle.

After the meeting, muguruza lamented the “hard” defeat harvested. “It is difficult for me to close the matches in two sets and that makes my rival have the feeling that he can come back and get stronger,” acknowledged the former world number one and winner of two majors.

“Now I have to work with humility and go unnoticed to climb again,” she added about her position in the ranking (73). “I will have to make a calendar suitable to my ranking. Now I will try to play the tournaments in the Middle East, but if I can’t I will have to see others of a lower category”, she concluded.