The main favorites to win the competition in Rome, Aryna Sabalenka and Iga Świątek, have already played their first meetings at this tournament. Both were great. On Thursday, the Polish woman won her match 6: 1, 6: 0, finishing the match with Elisabetta Cocciaretto in less than an hour. Sabalence, it took little longer on the court with Anastasia Popapowa. After 64 minutes, the result of her match was 6: 2, 6: 2.
Pogrom in the first set. In the second Danilović she lost, but with honor
The course of the first set suggested that Chinese will repeat the feat of Świątek or Sabalenka and easily win the match against Danilović. The Olympic champion from Paris on the court distributed cards and won as many as the first five games.
In such a situation, she couldn't even worry about the fact that after this series Serbka finally defended her application. Ba, Zhang probably did not really care about the fact that Danilović on the return had several opportunities to break her. Finally, the 8th WTA rocket had fun on the court, even allowing itself to nonchalant shoty drop.
Ultimately, she won the first batch 6: 1, but as it turned out, the good attitude of Danilović at the end of the premiere set was not an accident. In the second, both players took their passes, and Zheng could feel that the game was leveled, although there was nothing to indicate a moment earlier.
Ultimately, however, it was the tennis player from China who broke the rival once more, thanks to which she triumphed 6: 4, and in the whole match 2: 0 in sets. Zheng's rival in the next round of the tournament in Rome will be Magdalena Fęch, who defeated Wiktoria Azarenka 2: 0.