Led one round to nothing by Karolina Muchova, Caroline Garcia was able to recover and reverse the trend to qualify for the quarter-finals of the WTA tournament in Doha.
Caroline Garcia is off to a good start. After the frustration of a defeat in the final in front of her audience, the world number 5 validated her ticket for the quarter-finals of the WTA tournament in Doha after a three-hour long fight against Karolina Muchova. Solid in defense, the 123rd in the world posed many problems for the one who won the Masters at the end of last season. Not leaving the slightest opportunity to break her opponent, the Czech held firm before taking the service of the French in a seventh game white win.
This is probably what the seeded number 3 of the tournament needed to restart. Putting more intensity, she was able to put Karolina Muchova in difficulty, who held her serve not without saving three break points. An ascendancy that Caroline Garcia was able to maintain in order to make her opponent give in to return to five games everywhere. An intense first set that ended in a decisive game that saw the Czech take the advantage from the start. Winning two points on the French serve without conceding a single one, the 123rd in the world took the lead on the second break point.
Garcia FLIES in Doha ✈️
After hitting the 3 hour mark, @CaroGarcia closes it out in style! 💥#QatarTennis pic.twitter.com/kSBEiCzvRt
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Garcia a dû s’employer
The second round began with a real showdown between the two players but, gradually, Caroline Garcia found solutions to push back her opponent. Missing five break points in three different games, the Habs waited until the very last moment to validate this ascendancy taken in the game. Karolina Muchova gave everything to hold her face-off but she gave up in the eleventh game. Serving in the stride to equalize at one set everywhere, Caroline Garcia wasted no time, converting her first set point. On her way, the world number 5 had the first opportunity to take the opposing service from the first game, without however managing to convert it.
The debates were balanced before Karolina Muchova in turn missed an opportunity to take the lead on the scoreboard. A failure that the Czech could bitterly regret. Indeed, from the next game, Caroline Garcia raised her voice again to sign the decisive break in this round of 16. In the service to seal the fate of the meeting, the Habs missed a first opportunity before converting the second (6-7, 7-5, 6-4 in 3h00 ‘). A victory that allows the seeded number 3 to join Maria Sakkari in the quarterfinals.
