Carolina Garcia, 4th in the world, qualified for the quarter-finals of the Berlin grass tournament, logically but clearly dominating her Australian opponent Jaimee Fourlis (218th) 6-3, 6-2. “Of course I gain confidence, admitted the 29-year-old Lyonnaise before leaving the court. It is always complicated to go from clay to grass. But as I play, my confidence level increases. So I hope to play as many matches as possible.
She will face for a place in the semi-finals the Czech Petra Kvitova (9th) or the Argentine Nadia Podoroska (86th). Less than two weeks from Wimbledon and after a somewhat tedious first round against the German Sabine Lisicki (finalist at Wimbledon in 2013 but fallen to 308th place in the WTA), Garcia succeeded on Wednesday in imposing this aggressive game which worn during his breathtaking second half of the 2022 season but which he has been missing since the start of the year.
In 2022, Garcia was eliminated in the round of 16 at Wimbledon before going on to win titles in Warsaw, Cincinnati and at the end-of-year Masters with her first Grand Slam semi-final at the US Open. But since the start of the 2023 season, she has not managed to regain the confidence necessary to impose her game while being aggressive and risk-taking. She remained in particular on an elimination from the second round at Roland-Garros.
