Sara Sorribes remains the only Spanish survivor at Roland Garros

MADRID, 1 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) –

Sara Sorribes, from Castellón, remained this Thursday as the only Spanish representative in the women’s draw at Roland Garros, the second ‘Grand Slam’ of the season and which is played on clay, after authoritatively beating the Croatian Petra Martic (6- 4, 6-1), while Aliona Bolsova was eliminated by the Slovakian Anna Karolina Schmiedlova (6-3, 6-4).

Sorribes surpassed the second round at the Parisian ‘big’ for the first time and for the second time in his career he will play a third match after having done so at the 2021 United States Open. The goal now will be to be in his first round of 16 of an event of this magnitude, although she will face the Kazakh Elena Rybakina, fourth seed, current Wimbledon champion and finalist earlier this year in Australia.

The player from Castellón, number 132 in the world ranking, played a very solid match despite the complicated conditions, to which she was able to adapt better than Martic, 38th in the world and who had the endorsement of having been a quarterfinalist in Paris in 2019. Without However, the Croatian was denied with her service and came to accumulate 37 unforced errors, for the ten of the Spanish, who added 19 winners.

The first set was marked by weakness with the services, especially with the seconds of each one, which was reflected in seven breaks. Martic only won one game, the only one of the match, with his serve and he paid it off against the Castellón player, who won two, including the one that closed the set. From there, everything was easier for Sorribes, who remained solid and broke all the Croatian’s serves in the second set to seal her ticket to the third round without problems.

On the other hand, her compatriot Aliona Bolsova, ‘lucky loser’ who ended her adventure at Roland Garros against the Slovakian Anna Karolina Schmiedlova, who won in two sets 6-3, 6-4, was not so lucky. The player born in Chisinau was able to recover from a bad start to the match, going from 4-0 to 4-3 and serving, but she could not give him continuity and gave up the first set, while in the second she was trailing again and did not He was able to balance a ‘break’ when he had just equalized the clash (3-3).