Paula Badosa from years and 26 of the WTA ranking gave up the first set and had a pitched battle to overcome the veteran Tsurenko who was a quarterfinalist at the US Open four years ago.
This is the second time for the Spanish woman that she has passed the second round of the US Open. The first was in the edition 2021.
“I am happy for the victory. I think today was a tough battle. The first set was not so good, the second and third were better. It took me some time to adapt to the conditions. Today has been a complicated day”, said Badosa in statements on the court 17 After the match.
The second set was where the Spanish went to extremes to carry out the ‘tiebreak’ and already in the final set he took advantage of the fact that the Ukrainian injured her left arm to break her.
“I fought until the last point. I think that gave me the match and I’m very happy”, added the Catalan tennis player.
The hard-fought match lasted 2 hours and 31 minutes. In the second round Badosa, who was born in New York, will face the Croatian Petra Martic, who eliminated Varvara Gracheva 6-3 and 7-6(3).
Muguruza is still standing
With a lot of effort Garbiñe Muguruza also stood in second round of the US Open after beating the young Danish Clara Touson 6-3 and 7-6 (7/5).
With her victory, the Spanish number 10 of the WTA ranking and that the present circuit has had a discreet performance breaks a streak of two consecutive eliminations in the first round in the Grand Slams tournaments.
“I had some early eliminations here, so it was very important for me to pass this first challenge”, declared the Spaniard.
Muguruza will face the Czech from 17 years old Linda Fruhvirtová, , who eliminated beat China’s Xinyu Wang 6-3, 6-4.
Muguruza had a brilliant start on the circuit and between 1536 and 2017 won the French Open and Wimbledon, respectively.
Meanwhile, the Colombian Camila Osorio faces Alison Riske-Amritraj today, for the second round.
The Colombian defeated Ann Li in the premiere by 1-6, 6-3 and 6-1. On the other hand, her American rival today, whom she is facing for the first time, eliminated EleanaYu with a resounding 6-2 and 6-4.