Melbourne: Veteran French Alize Cornet describes herself as “a bit of a dinosaur” after he sent the world number three and 2020 finalist garbiñe muguruza crashing out of the Australian Open in the second round Thursday, upsetting the Spaniard 6-3, 6-3.
WTA Final Winner Muguruza struggled with the screen throughout the clash on Rod Laver Arena against an opponent ranked her 61st, lost in 1 hour 27 minutes.
Cornet has never been past the fourth round of the majors, but he is very experienced, appearing in 60 grand slam main draw in a row, the longest active streaks WTA and the third longest in history.
“I played very fit out there today, perfect condition my mind, I was not too tired, I’m just very focused on what I should do,” said Cornet, who was 32 years old on Saturday.
Rendamnya 👏Dalam magnitude of successive, complementary @alizeCornet biggest upset of the tournament so far.
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https://t.co/83va8mxl4l- #ausopen (@Australianopen) 1642643795000 “I feel like I’m in a bubble and I’m in a bubble and you always have to play a very good match to beat Garbine, he’s a fighter and even in the end I set and dropped out but knew he would not let go of the points.
“I was a little dinosaur on tour, I’ve been there for 16 years so I have played a lot of games and face many situations that I have to overcome,” he added.
” I think that my experience has helped me today.
“In the open era, only Ai Sugiyama of Japan with 62 appearances and Italian Francesca Schiavone, with 61, has played more consecutive administration.
Upset complete.
//T.co/nd00fenvts- #ausopen (@australiaopen) 1642643328000She and Muguruza have met four times before with Cornet always prove a difficult opponent.
they split their previous match, but Cornet most daring in the tiebreak of the third set in the quarterfinals Berlin last year.
Muguruza struggled from the start in Melbourne, crushed on the game service first to go backwards 2-0 behind which was delayed six errors in the opening game.
Cornet had three break points to make it 4-0, but the Spaniard saved them all except Muguruza struggle continued and he had to repel another break point to prevent his return to Cornet back well.
But cornet closed the set in 47 minutes with the Spaniard only 57 percent of the s ervis first and ratios are even worse in the second.
The second set went with serve until Cornet bring a break point in game five with a volleyball net, converted with a cross-court forehand that sizzle to move forward and ran to a convincing victory.