Garbiñe Muguruza, 28 years old and world No. 5, plays the WTA Finals, the Masters with the eight best of the season, four years after what was his third participation. The former # 1 has returned to the elite by winning the titles of Dubai and Chicago, and will be the culmination of a very special edition of the appointment of ‘teachers’.
The low of Shenzhen (China) due to the coronavirus ended up promoting a tournament in the Mexican city of Guadalajara, which is around 1,600 meters high. If there is already a lot of talk in tennis about the distorting factor of height in Madrid (600 meters), this does represent an added test to the participants, of which six are rookies.
The ‘veterans’ are Garbiñe Muguruza herself and her entry rival, the Czech Karolina Pliskova, which are measured this Wednesday, Spanish early morning on Thursday (02.30 am / Teledeporte and DAZN).
The event saves another historical data for Spanish tennis, because twenty-one years later there are two Spanish women again. Garbiñe Muguruza and Paula Badosa they pick up the witness of Arantxa Sánchez Vicario and Conchita Martínez, coach of Caracas.
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Before opening his contest, Garbiñe Muguruza attends to the media by videoconference. In a good mood and wanting to start. “The beginning is very strong, but I want to play now at once,” he launches.
“It is the most open edition because there is no clear favorite and it is the height”
“It is the most open edition because there is no clear favorite and it is the height. At most I had played at 600 meters, and here it is double. It costs more to control the ball, everything goes faster, but in each training you will get better” , indicates Garbiñe Muguruza.
The impact of the first job in Guadalajara was great. “I was amazed with the conditions, but it is once in a lifetime. I am excited and I hope to give my best version,” she says.
“It has been a great year for me and I want to continue like this”
She is already satisfied to return to the group of the best. “It is a growth being here, although I also learned a lot the years that I did not play the Masters. It has been a great year for me and I want to continue like this.”
Concides with Paula Badosa, although they are in different groups: “It seems like this goes in cycles. First girls, then boys, now again the girls’ turn. It is impressive to have two Spaniards twenty years later. Spanish women’s tennis is in style. Paula he has had a spectacular year joining the elite “, considers Muguruza.
As a Latina, Garbiñe Muguruza hopes to have the support of the public and that the event is a call for “that there be more women’s tennis in Latin America, where it is not a priority. May she follow this brave example,” she requests.
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