The Rosario tennis player Nadia Podoroska Today she overwhelmingly beat the Slovenian Tamara Zidansek. The victory came in straight sets, 6-0 and 6-1, which marked her debut in the new edition of the Australian Open.
Podoroska, number 63 in the WTA ranking, defeated Zidansek (99th) after one hour and 15 minutes of play on court 8 of the first Grand Slam of the season.
The best Argentine racket In the second round she will face the American Amanda Anisimova (339th) who has just hit a home run: she beat the Russian Liudmila Samsonova (14th) in two sets, 6-3 and 6-4.
Through solid play, Podoroska built a seamless match, where he gave Zidansek no chances. In fact, he solved the first set in just 35 minutes.
Podoroska, who had physical discomfort before her first game in Melbourne, scored against the Slovenian, who won both times they met previously: Hodmezovasarhely (Hungary) and São Paulo (Brazil).
The tennis player born in the city of Rosario advanced for the third time in her career to the second round of the Australian Open and obtained her largest victory in a Grand Slam.
“I’m happy with how I played, because the first rounds in this type of tournament are always tense. Last week I had not been able to compete well, but I was able to prepare well these previous days,” Podoroska said after the game before the ESPN microphones.
Nadia highlighted two break points that she was able to save to go up 4-1: “It was key at that moment to maintain serve, I had to save two break points, but it was important because being ahead in the score later helped me to loosen up more. In general, I had several chances, I was able to play very aggressively, there were several long points that also served to loosen up a little more. What I rescue is the mental level to be focused on each point, I was nervous, but having order and strategy all the time, no matter how much I was wrong or right, that gave me security.”
With this victory, Nadia Podoroska cleared up doubts after her fall last week in Hobart where she had entered the main draw as a lucky looser but ended up withdrawing in her debut against the German Tatjana Maria due to a shoulder problem.