The BBVA Open Internacional de Valencia, the only WTA tournament in the Comunitat Valenciana, has started its third day of competition with all the players in the draw already present on the courts of the Sporting Club de Tennis.
More than 400 boys and girls were present during the morning, in a bet maintained by the event since its inception to bring women’s tennis to all corners and ages of the region.
A total of 11 matches were played on center court, court five and court seven, with top names in the WTA ranking in all of them.
The main stage’s limelight began with the debut of number one seed Solana Sierra, who disposed of Ekaterina Kazionova 6-1, 6-2. Ariana Geerlings then continued her climb by beating Pigossi 6-4, 6-3, while Ángela Fita was unable to continue in the draw as she fell to Selekhmeteva 6-2, 6-4.
Leyre Romero finally started the afternoon session against Gorgodze after Pig withdrew due to injury, solving the match in two sets with 6-4 and 6-2, leaving the last round for Sobolieva and the number two seed, Nuria Párrizas.
On the other side of the stands, Carle and Kaji (6-1, 6-2), Quevedo and Chalaeva (4-6, 4-6), Symanovich and Semenistaja (6-3, 6-3), Korpatsch and Maristany (6-4, 6-2) and Lázaro and Mintegi opened the morning session.
Mona Barthel and Xiyu Wang met in the third court, deciding in three sets in favor of the former with 4-6, 6-1 and 7-6.
