Champion rematch

Garbiñe Muguruza activated the champion mode this Tuesday in the second round of the US Open. The Spanish played a great game against Andrea Petkovic and took revenge without acrimony on the German (“We are great friends”, revealed the Spanish), who had beaten her in their three matches: 6-4 and 6-2 in 89 minutes. Garbiñe was very solid, hitting with depth and precision, good in terms of mobility and defense. In debit, he missed three aces. They did not weigh him down because the rest and near the net also shone.

“We have trained many times together and we know each other, it is not easy to play against someone in those circumstances. When he beat me I was very young, now I have more experience and I am a different player ”, he pointed out. Thus he reached for the third time the third round of the Grand Slam that is worst given to him and will face Azarenka or Paolini on Friday. “I’ll watch the game, because we like to know everything,” he warned.

Muguruza’s start in each set was magnificent, with both 3-0 that made Petkovic’s task very difficult, always in tow and with the need to vary his game to try to surprise the Caracas player. That meant that he did not have a stable pattern of play in the face of Garbiñe’s order, rhythm and discipline, which was a steamroller, slow but very sure (only 14 unforced errors). The German woman threatened to react to the advantages of Muguruza, who stifled those attempts and despaired her colleague. Long rallies were most often seen by the No. 9 seed. And on the physical side, the specialty of a rock-hard, stringy Petkovic wasn’t far behind either.

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Motivation

The Spaniard, who complained about the lack of light on the track, covered by the rain, closed the victory with a right hand shot from a defensive balloon from her rival, proof that she is in her most focused and motivated version. , with the idea of ​​finally reaching fourth in the only major in which he has not exceeded the eighth.

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