2023-09-03 20:45:17
A huge disappointment
Guilty of 31 unforced errors, she made a copy unworthy of her rank, unworthy of a player who finally aspires to open her Grand Slam record. However, there was room to pass against the protege of Thomas Johansson, the 2002 Australian Champion. At 33, Sorna Cirstea will again discover this Tuesday against Karolina Muchova (no 10) the intoxication of a quarter-final in a Grand Slam tournament for the second time after the one played at Roland-Garros in…. 2009.
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Beaten for the first time in the round of 16 in New York after having negotiated the first three perfectly in 2014, 2019 and 2021, Belinda Bencic could not hide her immense disappointment when she left the court. Eliminated at the same stage of the competition in Melbourne by Aryna Sabalenka and at Wimbledon by Iga Swiatek, despite two match points in the racket, she wanted to ward off fate in New York against an opponent very much within her reach. But she couldn’t find the necessary relaxation to avoid getting her feet caught in the carpet so roughly.
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