Stefani’s partnership also wins early and returns to work on Sunday

This Saturday, the Brazilian tennis player signed two consecutive victories at the Wimbledon tournament in London (England). In the singles contest, the world number 13 qualified for the round of 16 by scoring a 6/2 double over Romania’s Sorana Cirstea (37), after 1h30 of play. It was yet another triumph on the list of achievements history for the 25-year-old player from São Paulo this year. Today Bia ended a 21-year fast as Andrè Sá qualified for the Round of 16 on grass in London. On the women’s side, Bia approached an even more distant feat, with Maria Esther Bueno, five-time Wimbledon champion: she was the last Brazilian to qualify for the quarter-finals of the tournament, in 1976.

“Today I won another game against a dangerous player on the grass pitch. I played a very conscious, very firm game. I served well, I managed to come back well and I I made some good rallies in the background. As far as tennis goes, I leave satisfied and ready to continue firmly in the tournament. I still don’t know who my opponent will be. Now I’m going to rest, take care of my body and get ready for the next round,” said the Brazilian, who returns to the field on Monday (10) against Kazakh Elena Rybakina, at a time yet to be defined by the organizers of the London Grand Slam.

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After the singles classification, Bia returned to the court for her doubles debut, alongside Belarusian Victoria Azarenka. The tennis players, champions of the Masters 1000 in Madrid in May, won, by 2 sets to 0 (6/4 and 7/5), the partnership of the Japanese Makoto Ninomiya with the Spaniard Cristina Bucasa. Haddad and Azarenka will face Russian Vera Zvonareva and German Laura Siegemund in the second round. The duel is scheduled for Monday (10).

Also making her debut on the right foot in doubles was São Paulo’s Luisa Stefani, partnered by Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia. Last month’s WTA 500 champions in Berlin, the tennis players beat Americans Ashlyn Krueger and Caty McNally by 6/3 7/6 (7/3). Stefani and Garcia return at 7 a.m. this Sunday (9) for the second round against North American Taylor Townsend and Canadian Leylah Fernandez.

“Good start here, first victory at Wimbledon. Very happy with the match. A break in the first set and in the second we closed well in the tie-break. Now on to the next one, hard fight against Leylah and Taylor, which we We’ll play at Roland Garros. Let’s go, let’s go. Thank you for the public,” said Stefani, 14th in the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) doubles ranking.

Then, from 8:20 a.m., the duo of Rio de Janeiro Ingrid Gamarra Martins and Belarusian Lidziya Marozava will face the Romanians Ana Bogdan and Jaqueline Cristian in the second round. Ingrid and Lidziya made their debut with a victory on Friday (7) against the British Alice Barnett and Olivia Nicholls, by 2 sets to 0 (6/0 and 6/3).

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