Garbine Muguruza came back from a set down and prevailed in a break fest in the following two sets to defeat fellow two-time Grand Slam champion Victoria Azarenka in the quarterfinals of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia.
The ninth-seeded Muguruza didn’t manage to convert two break points in a marathon game at 1-1, then Azarenka converted her sole break point in the set to go 3-1 up and won five consecutive points to hold serve from a 0-40 deficit for a commanding 4-1 lead which she kept till the end of the 47-minute first set.