Things are going well for Marina Bassols at the moment, the Spaniard had just won the lower-class ITF tennis tournaments in Palma del Rio and Madrid, but she managed an almost unbelievable feat at the WTA tournament in Budapest.
Bassols wins after a hopeless deficit: Marina Bassols plays in the first qualifying round of the WTA tournament in Budapest and makes history there. In the duel of number 208 in the world rankings against Yuliya Hatouka from Belarus (number 209 in the rankings), the Spaniard is more than hopeless with 0:6, 0:5 and 0:30 behind – and wins in the end with 0:6, 7: 5, 6:4. The 22-year-old also fends off three match balls, as “Eurosport” reports.
Short, clear, compact
With luck in the main draw: In round 2 of the qualification for the clay court event, Bassols was clearly defeated by the Hungarian Fanny Stollar 1:6, 4:6, but still found her happy ending because she was a lucky loser in the main draw with 251,750 Euro doped WTA tournament slips.
A tournament for history: In the first round of the main draw, Bassols meets the American Bernarda Pera. One of the biggest catch-ups in the history of professional tennis will not help her there, but an unforgettable memory will remain – no matter how the tournament ends for the Spaniard.
