The 5th World Player, in Mexico, beat Eston Kontaveit in two sleeves (6-3, 7-5) to become the first Spanish to win the competition.
Le Monde with AFP
The year 2021 will remain that of its return to the summit: Garbiñe Muguruza, 5 e Global player, has become the first Spanish to win the WTA masters by beating in the final 6-3, 7- 5 Estonian Anett Kontaveit (8 e ), Wednesday, November 17, in Guadalajara in Mexico.
The winner of Roland-Garros in 2016 and Wimbledon in 2017 loop in the best way this year 2021 with two wins in Dubai and Chicago, after three years away from the top 10.
For his fourth participation in the event, which brings together the best players since the beginning of the year, Muguruza was playing his first final. Unlike Arantxa Sanchez, which was the first of his country to reach this stadium in 1993, finally beaten by the German Steffi Graff, at the Madison Square Garden of New York, she did not let the opportunity win.
The experience of big appointments
Kontaveit, primo participant, who owed his presence in Mexico at his end of the thunderous season, marked by four securities won between the end of August and at the end of October, was a rival not to be meshed. At the dazzling form of Estonian, Muguruza opposed his experience of great appointments.
It’s she who gets better in the final, breaking a first time to lead 2-1, before her opponent immediately renders her. A good reaction that did not stop it from committing too many direct mistakes, giving up its commitment to the seventh game. Muguruza, stronger, was able to pocket the first set, thanks to a superb defensive lob after a long exchange, Once again on the Kontaveit service (6-3).
The latter has made it possible to force his destiny in the second round, resistant to many break balls for her converting one and lead 4-3, then 5-3. But Spanish found its tennis against and its ball length, which destabilized its rival, to win the following four games (7-5) and impose itself in 1 h 39 min.
Garbiñe Muguruza succeeds the Australian Australian Ashleigh Barty, winner in 2019 in Shenzen, China, but package this year. The past year’s edition could not have been maintained because of the CVIVID-19 pandemic and that of this year was relocated to Guadalajara for the same reasons.