WTA Adelaide: bitter debut for Jasmine Paolini, Cristina Bucsa wins

WTA 500 Adelaide: Jasmine Paolini-Cristina Bucsa 3-6 3-6

Jasmine Paolini's adventure at the WTA 500 Adelaide, the last tournament before the Australian Open, stops at the debut. The Italian tennis player è was defeated by Spanish qualifier Cristina Bucsa with a score of 6-3 6-3 in one hour and 34 minutes. The Italian tennis player class of 1996 paid for a very bad day on serve, as evidenced by the 6 breaks she suffered during the match.

In the first set, the two tennis players both held the first round on serve, then came five consecutive breaks, with Paolini finding herself down 3-4 with the Spaniard on serve. The Iberian came back to hold serve in the eighth game, and then in the ninth, on the second set point, with another break, she closed on 6-3 after 46 minutes.

In the second set, the inertia of the match does not change, as Paolini after failing to concretize the break ball in the first game and saving her own first set point at the advantages, suffers two consecutive breaks in the fourth and sixth games, allowing Bucsa to go to 5-1, with service at her disposal. The Italian tennis player, however, managed to have a reaction of pride and shorten it to 3-5, but the Spaniard did not lose concentration and closed the score with another 6-3 in 48 minutes of play.