Canadian wild card Marina Stakusic survived a wild opening-round ladies’s singles match to advance on the Guadalajara Open in Mexico on Tuesday.
The 20-year-old from Mississauga, Ont., defeated 22-year-old Russian Polina Kudermetova 3-6, 7-5, 6-4 in a rain-delayed WTA 500 match that took two hours, 29 minutes to finish.
Stakusic was down 3-1 within the remaining set, however regrouped, rallied and went into the rain delay tied 4-4. She gained the ultimate two video games after play resumed to wrap up the match.
Kudermetova completed forward of Stakusic on aces (5-3), and had fewer double faults (14-9) and unforced errors (33-30).
Stakusic’s successful proportion on first serve was 66. She gained eight service and eight return video games. She additionally gained eight of 13 break factors and saved six of 14 break factors.
Stakusic will play the third-seeded Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia on Wednesday within the spherical of 16.
Later Tuesday, Vancouver’s Rebecca Marino breezed previous Italian wild card Martina Trevisan 6-2, 6-3 in an opening-round match initially scheduled for Monday.
Marino had 11 aces, 5 double faults and 11 unforced errors within the 73-minute match. Marino gained seven service video games and 5 return video games. She gained 5 of eight break factors and had a 65 per cent successful proportion on first serves, in comparison with 47 per cent for Trevisan.
Marino will play sixth-seeded Tatjana Maria of Germany on Wednesday within the spherical of 16.
