Chennai (India) – Luisa Stefani’s return to the circuit is very close to perfection. After not competing for a whole year, she returned to the WTA 250 circuit in Chennai playing alongside Canadian Gabriela Dabrowski and in the first event she will already play in the final. The spot came this Saturday after beating Thailand’s Peangtarn Plipuech and Japan’s Moyuka Uchijima in the semis with a 6/3 brace.
Seeded 1 in the competition, Stefani and Dabrowski have not lost a single set in the campaign. In Sunday’s decider, they will face Russia’s Anna Blinkova’s partnership with Georgia’s Natela Dzalamidze, who qualified the day before and are awaiting the definition of rivals.
Despite winning in straight sets, defined in just 63 minutes, the Brazilian and the Canadian started the match with a scare and lost the first two games of the dispute, with a break against in the first game. However, the reaction was firm and they went from 0/2 to 5/2 and virtually defined victory in the first game, only having to manage the advantage until the end.
In the second set, it was Luisa and Gabi’s turn to push forward to open 2/0. They extended the advantage with another break in the fifth game, the rivals returned one of the breaks soon after, but followed the marker until the end and still ended up losing serve once again, in the ninth and final game, when they took a zero break. .
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