{"id":153254,"date":"2025-09-13T06:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T06:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/153254\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T06:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T06:10:08","slug":"now-i-want-to-win-the-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/153254\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Now I want to win the trophy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

S\u00c3O PAULO \u2013 Mexico\u2019s Renata Zaraz\u00faa<\/a> made a splash at the Sao Paulo tournament, and at the same time dealt a blow to the competition: with her 7-6 (7-5) and 6-3 victory over Beatriz Haddad Maia, she left the Brazilian tournament without its local star.<\/p>\n

\u2018Now I want to win the tournament,\u2019 Zaraz\u00faa told CLAY on a cold night at the WTA 250 in Sao Paulo, the biggest tournament in South America.<\/p>\n

Zarazua, 27 and ranked 79th in the world,<\/a> achieved a major success three weeks ago at the US Open by defeating local player Madison Keys, the seventh seed. Her victory today over the top seed in Sao Paulo, ranked 27th in the WTA, is a continuation of that.<\/p>\n

\u2018Losing in the second round of the US Open, in the third set tiebreak, cost me a lot, and the only thing I said was I\u2019m going to learn from this and I\u2019m going to try to do better in the next match I play, wherever it is, to play aggressively, to be brave.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018I think today, at times, I said, \u201cI\u2019m afraid of losing,\u201d and then I said to myself, \u201cNo, no, I\u2019m going to be brave and learn from the fact that I was afraid last time and lost.\u201d It could have gone the other way, but I think I did what I had to do at the decisive moments.\u2019<\/p>\n

\"\"Mexico\u2019s Renata Zaraz\u00faia celebrates her victory over Brazil\u2019s Beatriz Hadad Maia \/ SP OPEN<\/p>\n

Zaraz\u00faa will face France\u2019s Tiantsoa Rakotomanga Rajaonah, who defeated Hungary\u2019s Panna Udvardy on Friday, for a place in the final on Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u2018I don\u2019t know her very well, it will be the first time I\u2019ve played her, but I\u2019m going to try to focus on my game, on what I\u2019m doing, on what\u2019s working for me, and I hope I can do well.\u2019<\/p>\n

The Mexican chose to play the 250 in Sao Paulo instead of the WTA 500 in Guadalajara, in her own country.<\/p>\n

\u2018Mexico is very high altitude and I have a little health problem, my blood pressure rises a lot at high altitude and I don\u2019t feel well physically. The tournament knows this, I had to explain it to them, because for me playing in Mexico is\u2026 I have to play. But I respect my health, so I decided to come here.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"S\u00c3O PAULO \u2013 Mexico\u2019s Renata Zaraz\u00faa made a splash at the Sao Paulo tournament, and at the same…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[66319,93234,99,428,94087],"class_list":{"0":"post-153254","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-beatriz-haddad-maia","9":"tag-renata-zarazua","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis","12":"tag-wta-250-sao-paulo"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}