MADRID, 28 (EUROPA PRESS)
Spanish tennis player Cristina Bucsa has advanced to the second round of the WTA 250 tournament in Lyon (France), played on a hard court, after surprising Frenchwoman Alizé Cornet on Monday in three sets (1-6, 6-4, 6-1).
The one from Chisinau, number 139 in the world, gave up a first set in which she was unable to break the serve of her rival, a quarterfinalist in Australia and number 37 in the WTA ranking, but managed to equalize the contest after winning a second set in the who materialized four of his five break balls.
In the third and final set, Bucsa won the last five games to end the match in two hours and nine minutes and meet in the round of 16 with the winner of the duel between the Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska and the Romanian Ana Bogdan.
