Ana Ivanovic falls to Petra Cetkovska in the third round – Wimbledon Championships 2011
Eighteen seeded Serb Ana Ivanovic crashes out to Czech Petra Cetkovska in a straight set defeat in the third round of the Wimbledon Championships 2011, a Grand Slam event held on grass courts in London, England. She fought back
hard in the second set but barely did anything in it’s tie-breaker to registered a 2-6, 6-7(0) defeat on Saturday.
A former world number one, Ivanovic raised the bar of her game in the second set and took it to a tie-breaker. However, she failed to net a point in it to eventually crash out from this WTA Slam in the third round.
Currently ranked eighteenth in the world, Ivanovic displayed dismal performance into the opening set as he lost to the Czech, ranked 62 places below her in twenty-two minutes from the start of the match. She held her serve twice
in the set and failed to find breakpoint opportunity. Her energy further dwindled as she failed to hold on to her serve twice and eventually lost the set with a disappointing 6-2 score line.
The Serb had an awesome run of form in this major grass court tournament as she lost only four games and earned a bagel in both duels she battled before reaching this spot. She trashed American Melanie Oudin and Greekn Eleni Daniilidou
in straight sets.
23-year-old re-ignited the spark in the final set as she hammered twenty winners and produced a higher first serve share to easily reel off her entire serves. The fifteen unforced errors she committed as opposed to Czech’s seven
held her back to find a breakpoint chance. The sent was dragged to a tie-breaker where Ivanovic barely did anything and eventually lost the set with a 6-7(0) defeat in forty-eight minutes.
Overall, she earned better stats and clobbered more winners than Cetkovska but the many unforced errors she committed made the difference. She also saved five out of seven breakpoints faced but failed to find a breakpoint opportunity
throughout the match.
26-year-old Cetkovska on the other hand had reached Roland Garros’ fourth round in 2008 which was the highest she made in any Grand Slam event. She exited from the first round whenever she played in this event but for the first
time, she had reached this far. The Czech rallied past in three sets in the first two rounds she played against German Kristina Barrois and thirteenth seeded Polish Agnieszka Radwanska.
The Prostejov native had now sailed into the fourth round where she will face German wild card entrant, Sabine Lisicki who downed Japanese qualifier Misaki Doi in straight sets.
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