Beatriz Haddad Maia won on her WTA 1000 debut in Beijing, Saturday (28). The Brazilian confirmed his favoritism and defeated China’s Sijia Wei, currently ranked 140th in the world, with 2 sets to 0, achieving his fifth consecutive win. The match was well played and lasted 1 hour 56.
The 20-year-old Chinese player played hard, especially in the second set, where he was up 4/1. However, Bia Haddad, Brazil’s No. 1 and world No. 12, didn’t just give up and tried to make a comeback. Closing the match, the Brazilian, one of the top seeds of the competition, won five matches in a row. The split on hard courts is: 7/5 and 6/4.
This is Bia’s ninth win in the last ten matches. Karolina Muchova is the only tennis player tormentor in this sequence. In the last two competitions, the Brazilian reached the quarterfinals of the US Open and won the WTA 500 title in Seoul, South Korea.
