Julia Riera and Solana Sierra advance at WTA 125 in Montevideo

The Argentine tennis players Julia Riera and Solana Sierra advanced today to the round of 16 of the WTA 125 in Montevideo, which is played at the Carrasco Lawn Tennis Club.In the first round, Riera (148th) beat the Brazilian Carolina Alves (305th) 6-3, 6-1, in one hour and 24 minutes of play. Now, the 21-year-old, who has just lost in the semifinals of the Argentina Open, will face Turkey’s Ipek Oz (241st). The 19-year-old Sierra (193rd) from Mar del Plata also secured her place in the next round after beating the Brazilian Carolina Bohrer Martins (881st) 6-4, 6-1, in one hour and 22 minutes. In the round of 16, she will face Georgia’s Ekaterine Gorgodze (341st). In the last round on Tuesday, María Lourdes Carlé, born in the Buenos Aires city of Daireaux and ranked 140th in the WTA world rankings, will face the Ukrainian Valeriya Strakhova (281). If she wins, the 23-year-old, finalist last Sunday at the WTA 125 Argentina Open, will play her next match against Slovenia’s Polona Hercog (272nd) or America’s Varvara Lepchenko (291st). It should be remembered that yesterday Martina Capurro Taborda (157th) moved into the round of 16 yesterday after comfortably beating the Uruguayan Taly Licht (unranked) 6-1 and 6-1.La tennis player born in Avellaneda 26 years ago, finalist at the WTA 125 in Florianópolis, Brazil, two weeks ago, will play her next match against the American Robin Montgomery (218th) or the Spanish Leyre Romero Gormaz (301st).

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