“The dream of my life was to be here, without anymore, I still have the goose skin”.
And Sara Sorribes looks at her from her own legs of her, effectively, hen’s skin.
She can not erase her smile from her face.
She has just starred a feat at the Ariake Tennis Park, defeat the number one of the world in a little more time and a half [narration and statistics (6-4, 6-3)].
The Castellonense kissed the flag of Spain, raised his arms to heaven and until he rose to the Tribune of Central Court to celebrate with the National Delegation.
It had been a cyclone from start to finish before Ashleigh Barty.
The Australian or replicate could the solidity of Sara.
“I tried to be concentrated in the ball, without thinking about who she was, in what he had achieved, in the talent he has, how good it is. Concentrated on my own, on each ball,” he said in the mixed zone on his
Triumph before the recent winner of Wimbledon.
“Your best blow is the right right, you take a lot of space, you have to throw away very well, and you have them to lose, and take it very well, it puts you that extra pressure. Maybe other women do not mark so much difference with the serve
“Sorribes explained.
Barty, 25 years old, presumes two Grand Slam.
He has already won Roland Garros in 2019. But in Tokyo, head of number one, to the first of change, he met a confident and full rival, which makes physical power the greatest virtue.
“I have not seen the game earned at any time, until the last ball has failed, I was just in each ball, looking at it well, not to look beyond, it’s been the key,” Sara continued.
From the same Amanener, when he broke twice the service to the Australian.
Even the strength of him in the second set, when Barty tried to react.
Sorribes was all power.
He barely committed 13 unforced errors, by 55 of his rival, with 85% effectiveness in his first service.
“I have managed to fail little, have clear things all the time, do not get out of what we had spoken, maybe the right easier I have failed her in the first match Ball”.
She now, with that smile that she could not get rid of her face, she will face the second round of Fiona Ferro, who defeated Anastasija Sevastova in three sets (2-6, 6-4, 6-2).
Is it the greatest victory of your career?
“It’s the best, sure, so it means, by whom it is, the number one of the world, so the games are for me, playing for Spain, it is an extra motivation for what I like my country, so I like
I like all sports, enjoy the energy of sport. Here you have it, when you play as a team. ”
The day continued great for Spain, because Carla Suárez then defeated Ons Jabeur (6-4 and 6-1).
It is the first victory of La Canaria, which she had fallen in the first round of Roland Garros and Wimbledon, after overcoming a Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
In second round she waits Karolina Pliskova, who got rid of Alize Cornet (6-1, 6-3).