The Spanish-Venezuelan tennis player
Garbiñe Muguruza
again encountered the barrier of the knockout stages of
the United States Open
when she fell to the Czech
Barbora Krejcikova
in a match with a controversial ending.
Muguruza left the center court of
Flushing Meadows
with gestures of great annoyance after Krejcikova stopped the Spanish comeback after a
passage through the locker room in a medical timeout
.
The reigning Roland Garros champion was treated for
apparent respiratory problems
and, at the end of the match, she was helped to retire by a doctor and a coach and
did not attend the press
. "I don't really know what happened, but
I couldn't breathe
. I started to feel dizzy and the whole world was shaking. It had never happened to me before," Krejcikova explained in statements released by the WTA.
Muguruza, winner of two Grand Slam tournaments, fell by a final score of 6-3 and 7-6 (7/4) in an hour and 53 minute game that ended after midnight in New York. The elimination is a
great disappointment
for the Spanish born in Caracas, who was one of the most illustrious names of the eighths that the current champion, Naomi Osaka, nor the current number one, Ashleigh Barty had not reached.
With Muguruza leading 6-5,
Krejcikova called for medical assistance
and retired for
eight minutes
to the locker room. Upon her return, the number nine in the WTA ranking quickly put the match in her favor again.
The Czech won seven points in a row
to force the 'tiebreak' and lead 3-0 as Muguruza went from
astonishment to anger
. With her defeat sealed, the Spaniard coldly greeted her rival on the net and said "
this is very unprofessional
." Afterwards, Krejcikova was helped off the court.
"I prefer not to talk about this, I leave it up to you to judge," Muguruza told reporters. "
Between players they know a bit how to behave at
certain times and, yes, I was not very happy at the end of the game." "In the end I was really in trouble and now I feel really bad," Krejcikova added. "I just gave it my all at the end. It's tough because it was my first time playing on such a big court in the night session and until then I was having a lot of fun."
Muguruza, whose last Grand Slam triumph was at
Wimbledon in 2017
, acknowledged that he was not at his best in the clash.
"It was not my best game. I did not start the first set or the second well. At the end of the second I reacted but it was late," he said.
"
My shots didn't have the effect I wanted
. I
did
n't get my best tennis today."
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