The twist of turns: Tomova squandered 10 match points and suffered a ridiculous loss at the start in Madrid

Viktoria Tomova is definitely in one of the strongest periods of her career and deservedly earned the right to directly qualify for the main draw of the WTA 1000 competition in Madrid for the first time. Vicky got off to a great start to her clay season, reaching the second round of the WTA 500 in Charleston, where she was stopped by world number six Maria Sakari, and subsequently showed good tennis at the WTA 250 in Rouen, but squandered a 4-1 lead in the decisive set against Varvara Gracheva.

Today our first women’s racket had to suffer another twist and recorded an extremely bitter defeat by the talented Chinese Xinyu Wang, who is at number 42 in the world ranking and is a 2-time Slam champion in the girls – 7:5 5:7 4 :6. for 2 hours and 51 minutes of play time. Tomova trailed 3-5 in the first set, but went on a phenomenal 8-game winning streak to move within a point of a second-round spot, only to waste 10 match points and exit the battle in the Spanish capital, and Wang will faced off against 21st seed Caroline Garcia.

The beginning was better for the Chinese tennis player, who broke in the first game, but our compatriot quickly found her optimal playing rhythm and equalized for 2:2. The series of breaks continued and Wang again came out ahead in the score, and the Bulgarian won only one return point in the next two service games of the Asian. It looked like the opening set was going to a routine finish in favor of the higher-ranked player, but Tomova had completely different plans and played completely flawlessly to win the next 8 games and take a set and 4-0 lead in the second.

The world number 42 stopped her decline and even returned one of her breaks behind, but our native representative had no intention of losing an apparently won match for the second week in a row and came only one game away from the final triumph – 5:2. The 22-year-old Chinese continued to fight and saved three match points to reduce her deficit to 3:5.

Subsequently, Tomova had seven more points to win the match, but she never converted any of them and the events of the first set were repeated in reverse, as it was now the Asian’s turn to win 8 games in a row and lead 4:0 in the decisive part, avoiding the fate of our compatriot, although Vicky reduced her deficit to only 4:5 and soon the 2-time “Major” champion for girls could congratulate herself on the final victory.

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