Madrid, Spain) – Not enough for Luísa Stefani and the Canadian Gabriela Dabrowski in the quarter-finals of the WTA 1000 in Madrid. This Tuesday, they faced the 1st seed, the North Americans Jessica Pegula and Coco Gauff, who asserted their favoritism and won by 2 sets to 1, with partials of 6/4, 3/6 and 10. -5.

Classified for the semi-finals of the tournament, Pegula and Gauff will now face the association of the Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk with the Romanian Elena Gabriela Ruse, who beat the Romanian Monica Niculescu and the Japanese Makoto Ninomiya, on the final score of 2/ 6, 6/2 and 10-5.

The Brazilian and the Canadian had their chances in the first set, but ended up not taking advantage of a single of the four break points they had in their favour, one in the third game, two more in the fifth and a another to the seventh. . On the other hand, Pegula and Gauff had only one break and conversion opportunity, in the tenth and final game.

In the second game, Stefani and Dabrowski continued to pressure their opponents’ serves and earned nine more break points. This time they converted two, one in the seventh and another in the ninth and final, salvaging the two break chances they gave the North Americans, both in the third game.

The definition was for the match-tie-break, in which the São Paulo and the Canadian did not do well and missed easy balls. At 3-4, Stefani missed a smooth volley then double faulted. Later, at 5-7, Luísa didn’t kill a volley and Dabrowski missed a smooth smash wide of the net. All of this helped Gauff and Pegula, who took the win and a place in the semi-finals.

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