Muguruza crashes out on another wet day in Doha – WBNews

© Provided by Omnisport Spanish tennis player Garbine Muguruza Garbine Muguruza crashed out of the Qatar Open in the second round on another rain-affected day in Doha. Just three matches had been able to start on Tuesday because of the inclement weather, which arrived again to prevent the players from getting through the backlog, but only after Muguruza had suffered a shock defeat to Zhang Shuai. Zhang, who had seen off Timea Babos in her first-round match earlier on Wednesday, came through a two-and-a-half-hour battle with the reigning French Open champion and fifth seed Muguruza 7-6 (7-3) 3-6 7-5. Muguruza was also playing her second match of the day, earlier beating Cagla Buyukakcay 6-3 6-2, but could not quite complete a comeback from 5-2 down in the decider as Zhang prevailed. Two wins in one day! Even a Top 10 win! All in a day’s work for @zhangshuai121! pic.twitter.com/Nfl1DNEFPn— WTA (@WTA) February 15, 2017 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova won the only match to be completed on Tuesday, but her valiant effort against third seed Dominika Cibulkova on Wednesday fell short in a 7-5 2-6 6-2 loss. A left thigh injury saw seventh seed Timea Bacsinszky withdraw from her first-round match with Yulia Putintseva, who then went on to lose in three sets to Monica Puig. Puerto Rican Puig had routed Laura Siegemund 6-0 6-1 in her opening clash. Eighth seed Barbora Strycova made short work of wildcard Fatma Al Nabhani in a 6-3 6-0 triumph. The Czech lost the first game of…more detail

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