Tennis: Bia Haddad wins again and advances to the unprecedented 3rd round at Wimbledon – News of Brazil
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The Brazilian tennis player Beatriz Haddad, current number 13 in the world, will play next Saturday (8), for the first time in her career, the third round of the Wimbledon Tournament (England), one of the four Grand Slams (highest scoring tournament) in world circuit.
This Thursday (6), the athlete scored her second victory in a row, beating the Romanian Jaqueline Cristian (133rd in the ranking), by 2 sets to 1, after 2h30 of clash. The Brazilian returns to the court on Saturday (8th) – at a time yet to be defined – against another Romanian: Sorana Cirstea (37th).
“Happy for my fight, once again I found a way to win even though I didn’t feel well. I was a little ‘result-oriented’ and that made my level drop a lot. I was conservative, but now I have the opportunity to improve my tennis. I won’t play singles tomorrow, but I’ll see if I play doubles, it’s another opportunity to improve things.”said Haddad, who will play alongside the Belarusian Victoria Azarenka, against the partnership of the Japanese Makoto Ninomiya with the Spanish Cristina Bucasa, at 7 am (Brasília time) on Saturday (8).
Marcelo Melo’s duo debut well on the London grass
Marcelo Melo, from Minas Gerais, in partnership with the Australian John Peers, also won the upset this Thursday (6), in the debut match against the duo of the Dutchman Robin Haase and the Austrian Philipp Oswald, by 2 sets to 1, with partials of 6 /7, 6/4 and 6/4. Melo and Peers will face in the second round the winners of the confrontation between the Americans Christopher Eubanks and Jeffrey John Wolf and the French Sadio Doumbia and Fabien Reboul, scheduled for 7 am on Saturday (7).
“It was a great start for us. Really happy with the win. It was a tough game. A pair that came from the final last week in Mallorca. And we managed to take advantage of the opportunities, especially in the second and third sets. I think we started to implement our game more. Very good to have a break right at the beginning of the second set. We managed and then the same thing in the third set. Now it’s time to continue adjusting some details that didn’t work out today for the next round.”said Melo after the triumph.
The duo of Gaucho Marcelo Demoliner and Dutchman Matwe Middelkoop said goodbye to Wimbledon, losing in their debut to Croatians Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic by 2 sets to 0, with partials of 7/6 (7/5) and 6/4 ).
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