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Badly engaged in her match against the German Laura Siegemund ranked 158th player in the world, Caroline Garcia, 4th in the WTA rankings, finally managed to turn the tide to qualify on Saturday for the round of 16 of the Australian Open where the French will face the Polish Magda Linette or the Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova.
She was an opponent well within her reach, but Caroline Garcia got scared. The fourth player in the world, however, managed to overturn a very badly started match against the German Laura Siegemund (158th) 1-6, 6-3, 6-3. She thus reaches the round of 16 of the Australian Open where she will be the only French representative.
The 29-year-old will face the Polish Magda Linette (45th) or the Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova (18th) for a place in the quarterfinals.
Unable in the first set (4 winning strokes, 16 unforced errors) to set up his game against an opponent who succeeded in everything, Garcia had to wait for the second set to regain efficiency in the service and thus rebalance the debates and equalize at one set everywhere.
But Siegemund hung on without ever making it easy for her opponent.
So when Garcia broke to lead 4-3 in the third set, she had to fight to confirm on her own face-off.
And it was finally her who concluded on the service of Sigemund.
The Australian Major is the one of the four that has been the least successful for Garcia historically: she had only reached the round of 16 there once (2018) and remained on a defeat in the first round last year.
With AFP