Disastrous defeat of Garbiñe Muguruza

Muguruza hits a backhand during the match against Riske. Mark J. Terrill (AP)

Everything was on wheels.

The shots from the bottom of the court were deep and accurate, the rhythm did not drop and the service was very reliable.

A scorching dominance of Garbiñe Muguruza (Venezuela, Caracas; 28 years old) over Alison Riske in the second round of Indian Wells that was explained with a blank set (6-0) and 3-0 in the second.

“I was embarrassed by my performance.

I thought of the people who had paid to see that.

At 20 minutes, I was ready to leave the track”, later recognized the American, number 53 in the ranking.

But Riske continued to stand up, played a happier tennis and Garbiñe, as in past times, suddenly faded into black, a cross of morrocotuda cables that caused him to lose a most strange match.

She went from winning 9-0 to losing 12-1 to close out the match at 6-0, 3-6, 1-6.

“Garbiñe double-faulted to break serve and go 3-2.

From there, I had a good feeling”, Riske resolved from the press room.

The opposite happened on the other side of the net because Garbiñe, seeded number eight in the tournament, began to commit double faults and shrink her arm, unable to return her opponent's cross blows and say her own as happened on the last two occasions. that the two tennis players had measured each other (Muguruza prevailed in the first two).

The last one was at the 2019 United States Open in a duel of similar overtones (6-2, 1-6 and 3-6) and the previous one in Tokyo 2018 (1-6 and 2-6).

“As bad as I was playing, if I could put a couple of games together and get into the game, I was going to have a chance,” Riske revealed;

“and I am proud to fight at all times,

regardless of the situation.

I'm proud to get ahead."

Bad moment for Garbiñe, who although she closed last year with a historic title in the Women's Cup, has started 2022 with too many doubts, eliminated in the second round of the Australian Open by Alizé Cornet, in Dubai in the round of 16 and in the quarterfinals from Qatar.

She now she has fallen to the first change in Indian Wells after a somewhat inexplicable match.

A roller coaster that evokes past times, capable of the best and the worst.

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