(Cleveland) Spaniard Sara Sorribes triumphed over No. 4 seed Ekaterina Alexandrova 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 on Saturday in the final of the WTA 250 tournament in Cleveland, winning at 26 the second WTA title of his career.
Alexandrova, 22e world player, seemed in control after winning the first set and taking a 4-2 lead in the second, but Sorribes fought hard enough to force a third set where she came back again to win .
Sorribes, 95e world before the final, had entered the main draw with the status of “lucky loser”, eliminated in the last qualifying round but fished out due to a forfeit.
In the history of the WTA, they are only six “lucky losers” to have managed to go to the end in this way. Curiously, the Spaniard is the third to have succeeded in this summer alone, after Maria Timofeeva (in Budapest) and Nao Hibino (in Prague).
Cleveland was the last tournament before the US Open, the last round of the Grand Slam which begins on Monday.
Sorribes will face Ukrainian Anhelina Kalinina in the first round; Alexandrova, seeded N.22, will face Canadian Leylah Fernandez, finalist in 2021.
