Kaitlin Quevedo advances to the round of 16 and Sara Sorribes is eliminated in the Canton tournament

The Spanish tennis player Kaitlin Quevedo managed to qualify among the sixteen best of the tournament that is disputed in the Chinese city of Canton, category WTA 250 and on hard court, after defeating the American Sofia Kenin, while his compatriot Sara Sorribes was eliminated at the hands of the Turkish Zeynep Sonmez, sixth favorite.

In the case of Quevedo It took three rounds, all of them decided by a narrow margin despite fold logs of his rival in winning shots (52 to 26), to commit up to ten fewer unforced errors (30 per 40), to connect eleven direct aces and to be able to win five of the six breaking balls he had in his favor.

In it first set, in which he won up to two blanks with his serve, he ended up tipping the balance in his favor 6-4 by taking the rest in the tenth game, taking advantage of the only break option that they accumulated between them. In the second the dynamic changed, with two breaks followed by two counterbreaks between the fifth and eighth games, which forced a ‘tie break’ that was awarded Kenin by 7-5.

Already in the third and final Quevedo took the lead in the fifth game and, although his opponent balanced beating him he blank serve in the eighth, the spanish He responded immediately in the same way to go 5-4 up and close it, with the second match point, 6-4. Her rival in the next round will be the Hungarian Anna Bodnar, who beat the number one seed, the Ukrainian Daria Snigur, by 6-4 and 6-2.

For its part, You sorribe gave up in a clash in which he could only hit eight winners, compared to the thirty-eight of Sonmez, who was able to win the first heat in a convincing manner 6-1, breaking in the fourth and sixth games, needed in this last from up to four chances to do it.

The spanish in a second where they saw each other five breaks and up to fourteen chances, three of them in the tenth and final game, to seal it 6-4. In the last, The Turkish team went 0-3, winning twice over the rest, and was able to manage that advantage until They ended up finishing it 6-2. Now the Swiss will be measured Jil Teichmann, who defeated his compatriot Simona Waltert (7-5 and 6-2).