WTA Sydney: Bardoza wins third career title

On January 15, Beijing time, the women's singles final of the WTA500 sydney leg began its peak match, and the No. 3 seed Kregitskova faced the No. 5 seed Bardoza. In the end, after three hard sets, Bardoza won the championship by beating Kregitskova 2-1 on aggregate 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (4).

In this tournament, Krejickova had a first-round bye, then defeated Christian and Garcia, and then saved seven match points in the semi-finals to reverse Kontawit. Badosa defeated Ostapenko, TomJanovic, Bencic and Casakina in succession. The two previous encounters between the two sides were last year, with Bardoza winning both sets in Madrid and Indian Wells.

In the first set, Bardoza broke three times to win the next set 6-3 to lead 1-0. In the second set, the former French Open champion did not give up, after adjusting the state at the beginning, took the lead to complete the break and made a 2-0 start, and in the third set, Bardoza relied on two ACE and a direct serve in the case of 0-30, completed the save, and narrowed the point difference 1-2. In the sixth set, Bardoza took advantage of the ups and downs of his opponents to complete the comeback and pull the score to 3-3. The next two sets were saved by both sides, and in the final stage of the set, Kregitskova improved her form, and in two consecutive sets, she pulled back a set 6-4 and dragged the match into the decider.

In the decider, both sides saved their own serves in the first twelve sets and had to decide the winner by grabbing seven. In the seventh set, Bardoza overcame the disadvantage of being the first to be mini-broken by his opponent, 7-4 to win the seven sets, thus winning the decider 7-6 (4), beating Kregitcova 2-1 in a big score, winning three consecutive victories against the latter, and winning all three career championship battles in the WTA championship. It was the second hard court title for the Spanish girl, who also won the WTA 1000 class indian wells last year.

(Text, Editor: Milk Jun, Photo: Visual China)