WTA Finals: Sabalenka 19 double faults, 1-2 losses, Sakari missed the semi-finals_break

Original title: WTA Finals: Sabalenka 19 double faults 1-2 losses Sakari missed the semi-finals

Sohu Sports News On the morning of November 16, Beijing time, the 2021 women’s tennis WTA year-end finals continued in Guadalajara, Mexico. In the final round of the Chichen Itza group, the top seed Sabalenka In the qualifying battle with the Greek star Sakari, Sabalianka made a rare 19 double faults in the audience and lost to Sakari for nearly 3 hours 6-7/7-6/3-6 and missed the semi-finals. Sakari’s first appearance in the finals is the group qualifying, catching the last train of the semifinals, and then competing with Kontavit for a seat in the finals.

Belarusian star Sabalenka has completed his transformation this season. Abu Dhabi won the championship in the first stop of the season. Since then, he won the 1000 mandatory championship for the first time in Madrid. Then Wimbledon and the US Open have entered the semi-finals and refreshed their best record in the personal Grand Slam. , The world ranking rose to second and reached a career high. In the finals, Sabalenka participated in the singles match for the first time. In the first round, he lost to Bardoza 0-2. The second round was a reversal victory over Swatek. In the final round of the group stage, he encountered direct competitor Sakhari, a Greek star. This season, he has reached the semi-finals of a number of events in a row, including the semi-finals of the French Open and the U.S. Open. For the first time in his career, he won a place in the finals. The first two rounds of the group stage have a record of one win and one loss. The two have played against each other 5 times before, and Sabalenka has the advantage of 4 wins and 1 loss. Sakarri’s only victory was in the 2019 Cincinnati game. Since then, they have suffered four consecutive losses. The winner of this game will occupy a total. Final four seats.

In the first set, Sabalenka, who took the lead to serve, entered the state a little slower. In the first game, consecutive fore shots made a 15-40 break point. Sakari’s bottom line was struggling to establish an advantage. Sabalenka made a fore shot and suffered a break again. In the second game, Sakari’s break advantage could not be maintained. Sabalenka broke back on the second break point, and the score came to a 1-1 tie. Since then, Sabalenka continued to improve, wasting a break point opportunity in the fourth game, and then got another break point in the sixth game. Sakarri continued to keep his serve with his excellent serving state, and Sabalenka started 4 -3 leads. In the eighth inning, Sakari took a 40-15 lead in the serve game and wasted consecutive points. Then he made a short mistake and sent a break point opportunity. Sabalenka’s high-quality receiving backhand rushed to the corner, and Sakari couldn’t react enough to backhand. The ball hit the net and suffered a break.

5-3 came to Sabalenka’s serve to win the game, Sakari did not give up his efforts to continuously high-quality serve to hit the opponent, 30-15 lead after the bottom line is stalemate, Sakari took the lead in changing the line and hit the straight line to win After getting a break point, Sabalenka missed the round by mistake under pressure. In the tenth game, Sakhali had to make a double mistake in the serve. The break point was also a check. After that, the consecutive high-quality serve was completed and the score was tied 6-6. In the tie-break, Sabalenka once again fell into a double fault. The curse, after two consecutive double errors, fell behind 1-4, Sakari then served consecutively to score, 7-1 won the tie-break and won the first set victory.

In the second set of the game, the two swept through the first set of break service at the opening stage, and their respective serving rounds maintained an excellent state, and the score was tied 3-3 with continuous guarantees. In the seventh game, the deadlock was broken, and Sabalenka gradually recovered the offensive feel of the forehand, and consecutively shot the winning points to lead 30-15. After that, the bottom line was stalemate, and Sabalenka backhanded and hit the winning points in a straight line and got the break point. , And then high-quality reception to suppress the opponent, Sakarri returned the ball to the shallow Sabalenka to the tennis volley and scored a break, taking advantage of the situation to secure a 5-3 lead. Next is Sakarri’s second set of must-have serve games. Two consecutive double mistakes sent break points are also counts. Sakarri saved two counts and kept serving 4-5 one game behind.

In the next place, Sabalenka served to win the game. After issuing the seventh double error in the field, he was 0-30 behind. Sabalenka went out of bounds and sent a break point. The next step was to change the line and miss the backhand. This game. In the eleventh game, Sakari suffered a double error and tied the score 40-40. Sabalenka made a very deep serve. Sakari was pulling out of bounds and sent a break point. Then he faced Sabalenka. With high-quality reception, Sakari once again missed the game by making a mistake. 6-5 came to Sabalenka’s second serve to win the game, Sakari broke Sabalenka’s serve to win the game for the third time, and the score came to a 6-6 tie. In the tie-break, the scores between the two sides were tied all the way to a 6-6 tie. Sakarli was forced to backhand and cut the ball out. Sabalenko came to the net and scored a forehand sweep to get the inventory. Sabalenko sent the ball. The backhand offense turned the ball back and scored 8-6 to win the tie-break, and the total score came to a 1-1 tie.

In the final set, Sabalenka, who served first, fell into the double fault spell again. Two consecutive double faults were directly broken by his opponent. Sabalenka had 12 double faults in the game. Since then, the game has entered with the decline in physical fitness. In the break battle, Sakari’s break point was put on a short turnover in the second game, and he suffered a 1-1 draw. In the third game, Sabalenka saved two break points to keep serve. In the fourth game, Sakarri went out of bounds and sent a break point. Then he received a second serve and finished the break with a 3-1 lead. After the break, Sabalenka served the game. Still not able to keep it, after being shot and hanging on the net, Sakari took advantage of the situation and sent the score to a 3-3 tie. In the seventh game, Sabalenka sent out the 18th double-missed break point after a 40-40 tie, and the bottom line was stalemate. Sabalenka lost the game after hanging up on the net. Sakhalibao sent out the ninth game again to start the impact. Sabalenka once again sent a double-error break point and it was the match point. Then he was shooting out of bounds and lost the game. Sakhali broke serve 6-3 and won the final set victory.

In the end, Sakari, who participated in the finals for the first time, won a key victory, defeating top seed Sabalenka 2-1, and qualified for the group stage with two wins and one loss. He will advance to the semi-finals against Kontavit. The whole game took 2 hours and 47 minutes. In the game, Sabalenka completed 7 ACES goals and 19 double errors, while Sakarri had 8 ACES goals and 8 double errors. The first serve rate was 59%. Slightly ahead, Sakari led 71% in the first serve scoring rate. In the break session, Sabalenka broke 6 times with 12 break points, while Sakarri broke 8 times with 13 break points.Return to Sohu to see more