SINGAPORE — Rebecca Marino got here near pulling off an upset Tuesday on the Singapore Tennis Open, however an ill-timed service break within the third set, with the rating tied 5-5, did the Vancouver participant in.
Marino misplaced 6-5, 5-7, 7-5 to the fourth-seeded Xinyu Wang of China in a spirited girls’s singles match that took two hours, 25 minutes to finish.
The 34-year-old Marino, ranked No. 98 on the WTA Tour, jumped out to an early 3-0 lead within the first set, however the 23-year-old Wang, ranked No. 35 on the WTA Tour, took six of the following seven video games for the win.
Marino completed with 13 aces, in comparison with Wang’s three, and had three double faults in comparison with Wang’s 4.
There was little to separate the gamers on the stats sheet, apart from Wang having a 40-37 benefit on factors received whereas receiving.
Wang advances to the spherical of 16 to play Maya Joint of Australia, who edged American Alycia Parks 4-6, 6-1, 7-5 of their first-round match.
