Australian Storm Hunter is thru to the ultimate spherical within the Miami Open ladies’s qualifying singles competitors.
Miami, USA, 18 March 2024 | Leigh Rogers
Storm Hunter has scored a powerful come-from-behind victory to maintain her qualifying goals alive in Miami.
After contesting the Indian Wells doubles ultimate yesterday, the 29-year-old Australian travelled throughout America to take her place within the Miami Open qualifying competitors.
The world No.122 seemed in bother when she fell behind 2-4 within the deciding set of her opening-round match towards French veteran Alize Cornet.
However the decided Aussie managed to dig deep to report a 7-6(1) 2-6 6-4 victory towards the previous world No.11 on the WTA 1000 event.
Hunter received a complete of 106 factors to world No.98 Cornet’s 104 in a fiercely contested two-hour and 37-minute encounter.
It’s the left-hander’s fifth top-100 win this season and units up a ultimate spherical conflict with German Jule Niemeier.
Hunter is the final Australian remaining within the ladies’s qualifying draw, after Arina Rodionova bowed out towards world No.109 Darja Semenistaja earlier at this time on the hard-court occasion.
The boys’s qualifying singles competitors begins tomorrow, with Thanasi Kokkinakis and Adam Walton carrying Aussie hopes.
They need to be a part of compatriots Alex de Minaur, Jordan Thompson, Alexei Popyrin, Chris O’Connell, Aleksandar Vukic, Max Purcell and Rinky Hijikata in the principle draw on the ATP Masters 1000 occasion.
Aussies in motion – Miami
RESULTS
Ladies’s qualifying singles, first spherical
Storm Hunter (AUS) d [23] Alize Cornet (FRA) 7-6(1) 2-6 6-4
Darja Semenistaja (LAT) d [24] Arina Rodionova (AUS) 7-6(1) 6-2
COMING UP
Males’s qualifying singles, first spherical
[14] Thanasi Kokkinakis (AUS) v Hugo Grenier (FRA)
Adam Walton (AUS) v [20] Thiago Monteiro (BRA)
Ladies’s qualifying singles, ultimate spherical
Storm Hunter (AUS) v Jules Niemeier (GER)
Ladies’s singles, first spherical
Daria Saville (AUS) v Zhang Shuai (CHN)
> VIEW: Miami Open ladies’s singles draw
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