The defeat, and the way in which it was consummated, could lead to unfair judgments regarding Garbiñe Muguruza's balance in the Premier 5 in Rome.

Simona Halep put an end to the adventure of the Venezuelan Hispanic in the Foro Italico by defeating her in the semifinals by 6-3, 4-6 and 6-4, in two hours and 17 minutes.

Garbiñe left with two consecutive double faults of the eight that he accumulated throughout an intense, balanced game, in which he demonstrated a commendable taste for combat.

She will not be in the final on Monday, but she will arrive at Roland Garros among the top 15, within a favorable process since she began working with Conchita Martínez.

Halep, number two in the world, is a clay specialist, a player with enormous capabilities on any surface, as evidenced, among other magnificent results, by the title achieved at Wimbledon in 2019, but particularly irreducible on gravel.

Recent champion in Prague, the Romanian has 13 consecutive victories and, according to what has been seen in this meeting, the sequence seems to be prolonged.

Assuming that he should puncture the bone on many occasions, Garbiñe never lowered his arms.

She returned and returned until inviting to think about a comeback that did not go too far.

Her skin was worth little when she was 4-2 behind the rest in the second set or when she was 5-1 behind in the third.

Brilliant trajectory

But it was not by chance that he had appeared in the penultimate instance of the tournament with a remarkable career, leaving behind such rivals as Sloane Stephens,

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Gauff, Johanna Konta and Viktoria Azarenka, the latter in full resurrection after taking the title in Cincinnati and challenging Naomi Osaka in the US Open final.

Nor was it that at the beginning of the course, Garbiñe reached her fourth final of a Grand Slam tournament in Australia.

Halep, more consistent, with the intelligence and audacity that he usually shows off, needed to win several times a game that at times he governed with solvency.

Without losing personality or aggressive mood, Muguruza has improved when it comes to building points and is willing to row in the back of the track when it comes to defending.

It is a pity that her service, delivered up to eight times, four of them with double faults, far from providing her with the returns that would be supposed in a 1.83-centimeter woman, can become a hindrance, as it was in her match. against Halep.

The Caracas player required attention to her lower back after the conclusion of the first set and returned to the court with a bandage on her left thigh.

Nothing serious, based on her good mobility on the track and the enthusiasm she showed until she suffered the umpteenth betrayal of her serve.

A week before the start of the big event of the course on land, of a tournament that he won in 2016, there are enough indications to believe in her again.

She stayed for the third time at the gates of the final in Rome, but showing renewed arguments of the indisputable size of her tennis.

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