Brazilian tennis player Bia Haddad Maia won her debut match at the Wimbledon tournament on Monday (30) by 2 sets at 0. Current number 20 of the world, the 29-year-old Paulista defeated Rebecca Sramkova (34th), with 7/6 (7) and 6/4, 2 hours and 3 minutes.
This was the seventh confrontation between the two tennis players, with Bia Haddad reaching the fifth victory in the duel.
In the next round, the Brazilian awaits the winner of the match between British Harriet Dart and Hungarian Dalma Gaufi.
The Brazilian disputes the Grand Slam tournament on the grass surface for the sixth time in his career, with the best result the eighth phase of end in 2023, when he abandoned the match against Kazakh Elena Rybakina on the first set after feeling an injury. Last year she advanced to the third round, being eliminated by American Danielle Collins.
In the current season, Bia Haddad advanced to the quarterfinals at the Bad Homburg WTA 500 in Germany, falling against Italian Jasmine Paolini, and earned the title of Duplas of Nottingham’s WTA 250, in England, alongside German Laura Siegemund.
In Monday’s game, the Brazilian had the service broken in the fifth game of the first set, but managed to return the break in the eighth, with the tennis players confirming their withdrawals to bring the definition to Tie-Break. In the tiebreaker, Bia took advantage of a double foul and an undeceding error of the opponent to close in 9 to 7.
In the second set, Sramkova gave the impression that he would seek the reaction by confirming the service and break the Brazilian’s withdrawal in the following. Bia Haddad, however, reacted as soon as she then returned the break in the third game and getting one more in the fifth. She managed the advantage of the rest of the partial to close the set in 6 to 4.
