It stops at second round Sara Errani’s excellent progress in the singles draw in the Mutua Madrid Open 2024 tennis: the Italian qualifier loses to the top seed number 11, the Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maiavictorious for 6-3 6-2 in one hour and seventeen minutes of game. In the round of 32 of the WTA 1000 category tournament the South American will face the American Emma Navarro, number 19 in the seeding.
In the first set the blue girl gives up the lead in the second game, after having come back from 40-15, and by fifteen in the fourth. Haddad Maia found himself down 15-40 in the fifth game but saved the advantage and went up 5-0. A leap of pride from Errani, who recovered from 0-30 in the sixth game and avoided 0-6, then also recovered one of the two break deficits in the seventh game. In the eighth the Italian cancels a set point and shortens to 3-5, but in the ninth game Haddad Maia keeps the serve at fifteen and closes at 6-3 after 43 minutes.
In the second game the first four games are dominated by serves, but then Errani cancels a break point at 30-40 in the fifth, but ends up capitulating to the advantages. Haddad Maia found himself down 0-30 in the sixth game, but from that moment on he won twelve of the last thirteen points played, hitting a new break at fifteen in the seventh game and closing the score at 6-2 in 34 minutes of play.
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The statistics they are obviously in favor of the South American, who makes the difference especially with the first on the pitch, with which she gets 83% of the points compared to 51% for Errani. The blue girl is not very cynical he uses only one of the five break points had, while the Brazilian converted one four of the six played. Overall Haddad Maia wins 61 points against the Italian’s 38.
