2023-08-26 23:55:00
Spaniard Sara Sorribes triumphed over No. 4 seed Ekaterina Alexandrova 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 on Saturday in the final of the WTA 250 tournament in Cleveland, winning the second WTA title of her career at the age of 26.
World No. 22 Alexandrova appeared to be in control after winning the first set and taking a 4-2 lead in the second, but Sorribes fought back to force a third set where she is again rise to win.
Sorribes, 95th in the world before the final, had entered the main draw with the status of “lucky loser”, eliminated in the last round of qualifying but fished out due to a package.
In the history of the WTA, they are only six “lucky losers” to have succeeded in going this way until the end. Curiously, the Spaniard is the third to have succeeded in this summer alone, after Maria Timofeeva (in Budapest) and Nao Hibino (in Prague).
Cleveland was the last tournament before the US Open, the last round of the Grand Slam which begins on Monday.
Sorribes will face Ukrainian Anhelina Kalinina in the first round; Alexandrova, seeded N.22, will face Canadian Leylah Fernandez, finalist in 2021.
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