Tennis: Tennis-Third seed Muguruza bounces Burel to reach second round

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MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Third seed Garbine Muguruza struggled to shut out the competition however reached the second round of the Australian Open with a 6-3 6-4 victory over feisty younger Frenchwoman Clara Burel on Rod Laver Arena on Tuesday.

Burel confirmed loads of struggle and managed to break Muguruza within the opening set however her personal serve was brittle and 12 double faults dug a gap she was all the time going to wrestle to get out of.

The skilled Spaniard, a shedding finalist at Melbourne Park two years in the past, got here into the online to nice impact to go a set and a break up however was damaged once more when serving for the match.

The former Wimbledon and French Open champion broke Burel for a fifth time within the subsequent sport to get the job completed and transfer onto to a contest with one other Frenchwoman, Alize Cornet.

(Reporting by Nick Mulvenney in Sydney; Editing by Peter Rutherford)



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