Guest of the organization for the SP Open dispute, Nauhany Silva obtained a significant result on Monday afternoon (8). In her first participation in an elite tournament of the women’s circuit, the 15-year-old Brazilian triumphed about compatriot Carol Meligeni Alves, 29, to applause from an impressed public at Villa-Lobos Park in Sao Paulo.
Known as Naná, the teenager showed personality to overcome a much more experienced rival, 237th in the world ranking. The young woman, 37th in the pairs ranking and 1206 on the main list, won a turnaround victory, by 2 sets to 1, partial 6/7 (0/7), 6/2 and 6/0, in one hour and 48 minutes.
Highlight of the base tournaments, the paulistana showed the power of their blows, with withdrawals in the house of 170 km/h, and sensitivity in the left. When he succeeded at important points, he released his characteristic “gives him”, which he destroys from the most usual “Let’s Go”, such as the one used by the second opponent.
Carol had her uncle fans, former tennis player Fernando Meligeni, present in the Maria Esther Bueno court. He also had noisy boys from a family -related social project, who shouted “Carol, Carol” every two or three points. Another portion of the public reacted with “Naná, Naná”. Finally smiled the girl’s supporters.
Nauhany’s significant victory took place in a place that was already significant in his career. When (even more) young, without the financial capacity of much of her opponents, she was looking for public courts to play. One place they were found was Villa-Lobos Park.
When these courts were occupied, it was common to improvise lines on the asphalt for training. According to her, grown in the humble neighborhood of Real Parque, the irregular kique helped her develop her tennis, now seen for the first time in a WTA series championship, the main one of women’s tennis.
“I’ve been very happy! I play in these courts since I was six years old. Passing the first round in a WTA, with your fans, is even better,” he said. “Before the game, I had a conversation with my coaches, they talked about the importance of me staying in the game, because it would be difficult. I think that was the key.
SP Open is a WTA 250, the fourth in order of importance among those organized by WTA, the Association of Professional Tennis players – distributed 250 points to the champion, below the WTA 500, WTA 1000 and the four Grand Slams. The triumph, therefore, besides being marked in the girl’s trajectory, will earn you important points, now in the adult circuit.
