However, Contreras got on her nerves in the second set and began to let go of her arm, even breaking the Russian’s serve in the sixth game (3-3), but Kasatkina imposed her class to close the match quickly with three games in a row. (6-3).
“I had to change plan B, my strategy and it worked for me, but Kasatkina played a very good match today and all credit to herHe deserves it,” he declared at a press conference.
I really enjoyed the tournament, the atmosphere, the Mexican fans
“Reaching the second week for me (after the preliminary phase) is a dream and today, although he beat me, I really enjoyed the tournament, the atmosphere, the Mexican fans,” added Contreras, who after his participation in Paris will do the season of grass.
“Playing at this level here has given me a lot of confidence and I’m going to try to play grass tournaments, I’ve never played on that surface, but I’ve been told it’s a lot of fun,” explained the tennis player, who after graduating in 2019 in mechanical engineering in the United States, the country where she lives, He gave himself two years to find out if he could dedicate himself professionally to tennis.
“I wanted to see what level I could reach and if I could play (on the WTA circuit), but then the pandemic came. With this result here, I am 100 percent sure that I can achieve it.”
Contreras said goodbye with a message for the young women of Latin America, a region from which top-level tennis players have not emerged in recent decades, with rare exceptions: “we failed to believe. We are used to seeing Europeans, North Americans, but if you give them the opportunity to believe that it can be done, to allow young people to dream that you can make your way, that if you fight for it you will achieve it.”