Maltese tennis player Francesca Curmi upset fourth seed Marina Bassols Ribera to reach the quarter-finals of the Mallorca Women’s Championship 125K WTA tournament.
The Maltese top female player managed to upset the world no.129 in a three-set thriller as she romped home to a 3-6 6-3 6-3 win.
Curmi, who is ranked 233rd in the world, had to dig deep into their reserves to see off her Spanish opponent.
It was Bassols Ribera who started strongly when she took the opening set.
But Curmi kept her cool and managed to make the most of her opponent’s struggles with her serves, which saw the Spanish player commit ten double faults, to win the next two sets with an identical 6-3 scoreline.
For Curmi this was her second successive game in the tournament where she had to come back from a set down before securing victory.
In the opening round of the tournament, Curmi overcame Dutch player Eva Vedder, who is ranked 176th in the world, 4-6 7-5 6-0.
Curmi will now progress to the quarter-final stage where she will be up against Bulgarian player Elizara Yaneva.
The seventh seed breezed into the quarter-finals when she overcame French player Caroline Monnet 6-2 6-2.