Sorribes Tormo powerful performance to defeat Alexandrova, capturing second title of her career at the 2023 Cleveland Open
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Sorribes Tormo defeated Ekaterina Alexandrova 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 to secure her
second career title at the Cleveland Opeen.
Russian
player Alexandrova couldn't uphold her favored position in the Cleveland final
and faced a tough challenge against former world No. 37 Sorribes Tormo. The
Spanish player reached her second WTA final, with her previous victory coming
at the 2021 Guadalajara Open, where she defeated Eugenie Bouchard in straight
sets.
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Sorribes
caused a surprise by entering the main draw as a Lucky Loser after losing in
the second round of qualifying to Clara Burel. Her tournament journey began
with a victory over Katerina Siniakova, who retired with a score of 6-2, 4-0 in
favor of the Spanish player.
She then
stunned the third seed Veronika Kudermetova and the ninth seed Sloane Stephens,
securing a victory in the semifinals against Tatjana Maria to set up a clash
with Alexandrova.
Throughout
the tournament, the Russian player advanced with victories over Patricia Maria
Tig, qualifiers Aliaksandra Sasnovich and Xinyu Wang, and then in the
semifinals against Zhu Lin.
In their
head-to-head, they only had one prior encounter in the 2016 Linz Open
qualifiers, with Sorribes Tormo emerging victorious 6-4, 7-6(6).
This time,
it seemed that the momentum was in Aleksandrova's favor as she dominated the
first set. She recovered from an early break by Sorribes and quickly took the
lead with her own service game. The Russian secured another break, making the
advantage insurmountable, and claimed the first set 6-3.
In the
second set, once again, it was Aleksandrova who secured an early break in the
fifth game and then took a 4-2 lead. However, the Spanish player demonstrated
her resilience by breaking back to level the score at 4-4. Sorribes won four
consecutive games to come back in the match and took the second set 6-4.
In a
hard-fought third set, once again, the Spanish player started from behind but
managed to stay in the game. With three breaks from Sorribes and two from
Aleksandrova, the Spaniard clinched the championship on her fourth match point
and won 3-6, 6-4, 6-4.
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