A new season of sports
This is my original translation from the original text of the WTA official website, and the original intention of my translation is not to lose my old business. Original title: rybakina fights back to beat collins; Into Abu Dhabi quarterfinals Rybakina reverses Collins to advance to Abu Dhabi quarterfinals
Tournament No1 Rybakina thrillingly advanced to the WTA 500 Abu Dhabi quarterfinals. She staged a comeback in the adversity of losing the first set and being broken in the second set, and it took 2 hours and 17 minutes to advance to the third round in a thrilling way, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3. This is Rybakina's third quarter-final of the 2024 season.
Rybakina's record against Collins was rewritten to take a 3-1 lead. In San Jose 2021, the two met for the first time, and Rybakina lost in 2 tie-breaks.
In fact, former Wimbledon champion Rybakina reached the last eight every time in Abu Dhabi. In 2021, she lost to Sabalenka in the quarterfinals; Last year, she also lost to Maya in the top 8. The Kazakh beauty is expected to make a breakthrough this year, and her opponent in this year's quarter-finals is the lucky loser Buksha. Buksa defeated qualifier Watson 7-6(1) 7-5 to advance to the quarterfinals of her first career.
Rybakina vs Collins, in the first set, the 30-year-old American beauty blasted a series of winning points, especially the backhand winning points, a total of 12, and only 5 unforced errors. She conceded only one point on her serve.
In the second set, the two sides were locked in a struggle. At 3-3, Rybakina cashed in her fourth break point and finally broke the deadlock. Then she continued to win the last three games, 6-3, and pulled one back.
In the third set, the two sides began to break each other, and the two sides drew 2-2. But in the fifth game, it was Rybakina who broke her fifth serve and scored a brilliant backhand crossing to give her a 3-2 lead.
With her fitness declining, Collins slipped into form in the second two sets, where she scored just 16 winning points in the second set, while 22 were unforced errors. On the other hand, Rybakina increased her competitiveness in the last two sets, hitting 20 winning points + 12 unforced errors. Rybakina hit a deep and accurate baseline ball every time, which made Collins make frequent mistakes, and Rybakina successfully broke serve again and took away the victory.
No. from the Czech Republic4 Krejcikova, referred to as Krejkova, is the same as No8 Samsonova competes for another place in the top 4.
Kreva had a first-round bye. In the second round, she led the lucky loser Tomo 6-2, 1-0, who retired with a painful right hand. In the first set, at 3-2, the Spanish girl fell to the ground with her right hand to save a small ball, injuring her right hand.
Samsonova, the Russian beauty, was the runner-up in the 2023 tournament, and she took only 68 minutes to defeat Ukrainian Karenina, 6-1, 6-3. This week, she has dropped just five games in two games. Samsonova and Kreva have faced each other twice before, both last year. Samsonova won 7-5, 7-6(6) in the second round in Abu Dhabi last year, but lost to Kreva 2-6, 0-6 in the first round in Stuttgart.
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