Italian tennis can unveil another ace: Tyra Grant, an 18-year-old Roman player, has managed to get through the WTA Madrid qualifiers and enter the main draw of the Spanish competition. The 2008-born athlete came back to win against Hungary’s Panna Udvardy in three sets (0-6, 6-3, 6-2), capping off two exciting days on Spanish clay with two prestigious wins over top 100 players: yesterday, in fact, she defeated world No. 96 Veronika Erjavec in straight sets.
The match
The clash against the Hungarian was extremely tough: in the first set, the Roman tennis player couldn’t get into the match, losing without winning a single game. Things changed significantly from the second set, when Grant leveled the score and managed to prevail with an excellent 6-3. The third set mirrored the second, once again seeing the Italo-American come out on top.
This is a remarkable achievement, considering both the opponent’s status (78th in the ranking versus the Italian player’s 262nd) and the qualifying rounds played so far: Italy saw Stefanini, Brancaccio, and Trevisan exit in the opening round of the women’s pre-qualifiers, and Pellegrino, Arnaldi, Travaglia, and Maestrelli in the men’s.
Last edition
Daughter of basketball player Tyrone Grant and tennis coach Cinzia Giovinco, Tyra already came close to the Madrid main draw last year, but on that occasion was eliminated by Aljaksandra Sasnovic with a score of 1-6, 5-7. This time, she managed to bring home this splendid result, which will allow her to collect her third appearance in the main draw of a ‘1000’ tournament: last year she competed in Miami and the Internazionali d’Italia, losing respectively to Germany’s Grabher and Croatia’s Ruzic.
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