Number one Barty suffers against Zidansek to reach the last 16

Number one Barty suffers against Zidansek to reach the last 16

Ashleigh Barty, world number one, suffered this Saturday to go to the second round of the Mutua Madrid Open. The 25-year-old Australian needed three sets (6-4, 1-6 and 6-3) and almost two hours of game to beat the Slovenian Tamara zidansek, 23rd and 80th in the ranking.

Barty seemed to have the game under control after a comfortable first set in which he saved three break points and broke his rival’s serve to get 5-4 and serve. But in the second set, Zidansek raised the bar and found a way to upset the world leader. to score his sleeve with two breaks and without suffering in almost all his turns.

Barty, the best of the year with 22 wins and only three defeats, reacted well in a third set that started with a 3-0 lead, an advantage that she was able to maintain without trouble until the end of the match. In the eighth round, she also arrived in 2019 and for which she expects a rival: the German Laura Siegemund or the Polish Iga Swiatek.

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