(Cleveland) Sara Sorribes of Spain triumphed over No. 4 seed Ekaterina Alexandrova 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 on Saturday in the final of Cleveland’s WTA 250 tournament, winning the 26-year-old’s second WTA title. his career.
World No. 22 Alexandrova seemed in control after winning the first set and taking a 4-2 lead in the second, but Sorribes fought hard to force a third set where she is again rise to win.
Sorribes, 95th in the world before the final, had entered the main draw with the status of “lucky loser”, eliminated in the last round of qualifying but drafted due to a withdrawal.
In the history of the WTA, they are only six “lucky losers” to have managed to go all the way. Curiously, the Spaniard is the third to have achieved this in this summer alone, after Maria Timofeeva (in Budapest) and Nao Hibino (in Prague).
Cleveland was the last tournament before the US Open, the last round of the Grand Slam which begins on Monday.
Sorribes will face Ukrainian Anhelina Kalinina in the first round; Alexandrova, seeded N.22, will face Canadian Leylah Fernandez, finalist in 2021.