Marino loses a spirited 3-set match to Wang in Singapore Open

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jan 28, 2025 8:59 AM EST | Last Updated: January 28

Rebecca Marino came adjacent to pulling disconnected an upset Tuesday astatine the Singapore Tennis Open, but an ill-timed work interruption successful the 3rd set, with the people tied 5-5, did the Vancouver subordinate in.

Marino mislaid 6-5, 5-7, 7-5 to the fourth-seeded Xinyu Wang of China successful a spirited women's singles lucifer that took 2 hours, 25 minutes to complete.

The 34-year-old Marino, ranked No. 98 connected the WTA Tour, jumped retired to an aboriginal 3-0 pb successful the archetypal set, but the 23-year-old Wang, ranked No. 35 connected the WTA Tour, took six of the adjacent 7 games for the win.

Marino finished with 13 aces, compared to Wang's three, and had 3 treble faults compared to Wang's four.

There was small to abstracted the players connected the stats sheet, different than Wang having a 40-37 vantage connected points won portion receiving.

Wang advances to the circular of 16 to play Maya Joint of Australia, who edged American Alycia Parks 4-6, 6-1, 7-5 successful their first-round match.