Spanish tennis lived a day of joy due to the unexpected pass of

Sara Sorribes

to the quarterfinals of the Miami Open and disappointment at the elimination of its greatest standard,

Garbiñe Muguruza

.

Only the honor of the

eighth-seeded

Canadian

Bianca Andreescu

prevented a Spanish duel in the quarterfinals in Miami, the second WTA 1000 tournament of the season.

Amid persistent and suffocating humidity, Andreescu did not give up as he lost the first set to Muguruza and took the 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 win at Hard Rock Stadium.

"I think it was an even game. I had many opportunities in the second set to keep my head but I did not take advantage of them," Muguruza lamented in the press videoconference.

"

The difference was physical. I lacked energy and spark against a very fast player

. I resented yesterday's game," said the Spanish, who 24 hours earlier had fought almost three hours to beat the Russian

Anna Kalinskaya

.

After winning the second set, Andreescu hit the gas in the last heat, breaking the Spanish's serve in the first two opportunities.

Lamenting her mistakes under the gaze of her coach,

Conchita Martínez

, Muguruza launched one last attempt to extend the set with a break ball 5-2 down.

Andreescu, however, saved the day and led the game to a tiebreaker where he finished the game with a service point followed by a cry of relief.

"It was not easy. I told myself that I had to trust the process and be patient, and I think that is being demonstrated here in Miami," said the Canadian, who aspires to return to the path of success of 2019, year in which he conquered the United States Open and the Indian Wells and Toronto tournaments.

On her side, Muguruza was satisfied with her performance in the start of 2021, in which she has had a score of matches won and broke a drought of almost two years without titles by lifting the WTA 1000 tournament in Dubai.

The Spanish had jumped to the tennis elite with her triumphs at Roland Garros in 2016 and Wimbledon in 2017.

"It is possibly my best start to the year. Today is tough but in five minutes I will change my face and look at the gravel season, which It's my favorite surface

,

"

said the tennis player, born 27 years ago in Caracas.

"I am playing the best tennis of my life"

Before Muguruza's farewell, the celebration came to see the surprising Sara Sorribes, number 58 in the WTA ranking, among the eight best in Miami.

Sorribes defeated the Tunisian

Ons Jabeur

, number 30 of the WTA, 6-4, 0-6 and 6-1 in two exact hours of play in which she again exhibited her great moment of form and her physical resistance.

"I'm super happy. I think I played maybe the best game of my life. I'm playing the best tennis of my life, for sure," said the 24-year-old tennis player.

Sara Sorribes, in Miami.AFP

This season, the Spaniard leads the circuit in matches that have lasted two hours, including her first two duels in Miami against Americans Bernarda Pera and Jennifer Brady.

"I am surprised every day with the way I am playing against these types of players. I can only say: 'wow," celebrated Sorribes, who was able to overcome the loss of a second blank set.

"At that time I thought I was not doing so badly. But the level is very even and you don't have to do too badly to be 6-0," he stressed.

Sorribes, who has never reached a third round of a Grand Slam, won her first WTA title this month at the Guadalajara tournament.

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