MADRID, 14 (EUROPA PRESS)
Spanish tennis player Cristina Bucsa qualified this Friday to play the final draw of the Australian Open, the first ‘Grand Slam‘ of the season that will take place from next Monday and the second ‘big’ in her career.
The 24-year-old from Cantabria was the only one of the three representatives who played the ticket for the women’s team who managed to overcome the demanding preliminary phase by beating the Dutch Richel Hogenkamp in three sets by 7-5, 2-6 and 6 -3 and being able to play a ‘Grand Slam’ for the second time after doing it last year at the United States Open where she lost in the first round to the Swiss Jil Teichman.
For her part, her teammates Aliona Bolsava, who fell to Slovakian Viktoria Kuzmova 6-2, 7-5 after wasting two set balls in the second set, and Rebeka Masarova, who could not with South Korean Su Jeong Jang, who won 6-2, 6-3.
In this way, Bucsa, who will premiere in the ‘great’ oceanic before the Belgian Alison van Uytvanck, number 56 in the world, joins Garbiñe Muguruza, Paula Badosa, Sara Sorribes and Nuria Parrizas as representatives of Spanish women’s tennis in Melbourne Park .
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