Camila Giorgi immediately out in Linz, Cocciaretto dominates derby with Stefanini
Camila Giorgi immediately out in Linz, Cocciaretto dominates derby with Stefanini
Camila Giorgi’s journey at the WTA 500 in Linz comes to an immediate halt. The tennis player from Marche, in fact, was è made up by the Danish Clara Tauson, number 91 in the WTA ranking, who è imposed herself with the score of 3-6 6-3 6-3 after two hours and five minutes of play, in the first round match of the Austrian tournament.
Camila è started well, taking the break lead in the sixth game of the first set, which she kept until the final 6-3. However, in the second set, an empty passage of the azurra in the eighth game è cost her the partial, won by Tauson with the same score. In the third and decisive set, Giorgi è went immediately down by a break (1-2) but reacted immediately (3-2). From that moment forò the Dane did not make any more mistakes, while Camila è dropped, especially on serve, surrendering 3-6.
Tauson will face the number 1 seed, Jelena Ostapenko, in the round of 16. Instead, the tricolor derby with Lucrezia Stefanini goes to Elisabetta Cocciaretto: a match without history, won by the 23-year-old from Ancona with the score of 6-2 6-0 after one hour and twenty-one minutes of play. In the next round Cocciaretto will face the winner of the challenge between Sara Errani and Anastasia Potapova.
