Garbiñe Muguruza's survival exercise to advance in Paris

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Garbiñe Muguruza debuted at Roland Garros with a victory that counts as a survival exercise.

The caraqueña needed a little more than three hours to defeat Tamara Zidansek in a battle in which she was seen 3-0 in the third set (7-5, 4-6, 8-6).

The Slovenian,

, put him in such a bind that, as soon as he sealed the victory and before greeting his rival in the network, Muguruza approached the stands to give Conchita Martínez a kiss.

Garbiñe began out of temper, in tune with this autumn Roland Garros that has forced tennis players to rescue tights and long-sleeved clothing from the closet.

She entered much later than Zidansek, who barely took a couple of rallies to show herself fast and alive with her legs.

In front, Garbiñe had problems not only to send from the serve, but even

.

The Slovenian scored her first service game after seven break points.

Zidansek went 3-0 in a start in which Muguruza racked up much of his 26 unforced errors from the first set.

An extremely irregular start from which to leave on time and with authority: the Venezuelan-Spanish dusted off

and ended up linking five consecutive games, direct line to the first set.

Muguruza suffered the same problems - one of the few - that he had had

.

Twice she got a break in the second heat, twice she broke Zidansek back in the next game.

The Slovenian defended herself at a high level, but above all she was aggressive, getting deep inside the track and using Garbiñe's 1.82 against her: on countless occasions she looked for her feet with the rest and signed left so well measures that Muguruza almost he had to bury the racket in the ground to get there.

With one of those the second set was scored.

Between the end of the second set and the beginning of the third, Zidansek had

.

If that skill of the Slovenian put her in trouble, Garbiñe also did her thing: she only got 63% of her first serves and only won 44% of the points with her second serve.

And in the middle of that mismatch she ended up stuck in another hole with 3-0 against, this time in the third set.

Again he had to reach for the backpack of rights and parallel setbacks, to put pressure on the court, looking for winners (

to scare the alarm.

Muguruza knew how to handle that wire from which she has fallen so many times.

He raised that 0-3 against and a break ball with 4-4 that would have left Zidansek with a serve to take the game.

When he managed to get 7-6 in favor, he didn't even want to sit at halftime.

She stood by the bench, hopping to stay active, eager to close out the unexpected three-hour battle.

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