The French number 1 Alizé Cornet was eliminated on Monday at the WTA tennis tournament in Lyon, where she was seeded number 4, beaten by the Spaniard Cristina Bucsa (1-6, 6-4, 6-1). The latter, 139th in the world and aged 24, came from the qualifying table and had never beaten a player ranked in the World Top 60.
«I am really very disappointed and frustrated to have lost in the first round especially after showing the level of play that I had in January (she had reached the quarter-finals of the Australian Open) and even last week at Doha. It was an event close to my heart. It’s quite painful“, Lamented the 39th player in the world.
«On the match, I don’t really know what happened. I was in control with a good first set and a break for me. And in the middle of the second set, I lost the thread a bit and I started to tense up and the opponent played better and better, more and more relaxed. It was super hard mentally in the third in which I had no solution after I missed my chance in the second“, she continued. “I will have to bounce back quickly because there is a big tournament in Indian Wells where I hope to play better“, she concluded.
