Elisabetta Cocciaretto flies to the quarters in Birmingham

Elisabetta Cocciaretto flies to the quarters in Birmingham

Elisabetta Cocciaretto flies to the quarterfinals of the WTA 250 in Birmingham. After eliminating the defending champion and number one seed Jelena Ostapenko, the Marche player also overcame the U.S. Sloane Stephens, number 48 in the WTA ranking, with the final score of 6-4 6-2 after one hour and twenty minutes of play.

“Playing another match here made me feel very comfortable. I started a little bit nervous and contracted while she was playing really well – emphasized the blue player at the end of the match, in the words reported by SuperTennis -. She was putting a lot of pressure on me: I tried to focus on what I had to do on the court. I tried to find my game again and I’m really proud of the way I put the match back together against one of the first players I admired when I was just a child".

In the next round Elisabetta will face the winner of the match between Russian Diana Shnaider, world number 49, and Czech Marie Bouzkova, number 37 in the WTA rankings and eight in the seeding: "I have to stay focused on the things that I have to put into practice without thinking about who is on the other side of the net. Sometimes è it’s more complicated, sometimes è it’s a little more’ simple". 

"All in all, today I am satisfied: okay, the’beginning was not the best but then I recovered well. Definitely the’having eliminated in the debut the first seed of the tournament gave me a lot of confidence. It’ s only my third career tournament on this surface but playing on grass I’m enjoying it" concluded Cocciaretto.