It was not a good sign to see Garbiñe Muguruza throw the racket.
And much less that, after picking it up, she broke it in two against the ground.
She had just lost a set in which she had had three break balls to go 5-2 and serve to close, and the gesture aired her frustration.
The Spanish-Venezuelan ended up losing in the second round of the US Open against Tsvetana Pironkova (7-5, 6-3), a tennis player who had not competed for three years.
Again the US Open.
Always the US Open.
Except in 2017, when he reached the round of 16, Muguruza has never made it past the second round at Flushing Meadows.
In 2018 he fell in his second game against
Karolina Muchova
, number 202 in the ranking;
last year it fell in the first round against
Alison Riske
, the second big followed in which I fell in its premiere;
And this year, after a hesitant debut against
Nao Hibino
, he falls back early.
Muguruza arrived at the US Open without filming.
He had to get off
Lexington
and
Cincinnati
due to an ankle injury and he had not played for six months, since the pandemic cut off an impeccable start to the season: he was a finalist in the Australian Open and had reached at least the quarterfinals. final in the other four tournaments he had played.
Of course, Pironkova had
n't played since July 2017
.
The Bulgarian left tennis three years ago to start a family and this US Open was her return to the courts.
A decade ago, she was number 31 in the world and now she doesn't even have a WTA ranking yet.
It was, in theory, one more rival in an affordable box, without any seed on the horizon until the eighth.
But again she stumbles again at the US Open, her big damn.
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