Anastasia Rodionova blasts past Ayumi Oka into final qualifying round – Toray Pan Pacific Open 2011

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Anastasia Rodionova blasts past Ayumi Oka into final qualifying round – Toray Pan Pacific Open 2011
Seventh seeded Australian Anastasia Rodionova swat past Japanese wild card entrant Ayumi Oka with a bagel at the Toray Pan Pacific Open Tennis 2011, a WTA Premier 5 event held at the Ariake Coliseum in Tokyo, Japan. She registered
a 6-2, 6-0 victory over the local star to reach the final round of the qualifiers on Friday.
The seed outshined throughout the match and broke Oka’s serve six times to earn a straight set victory on the Japan’s outdoor hard courts.
Rodionova lost her serve once in the opening set but cashed in on all three breakpoint opportunities to her advantage to seal a 6-2 victory. She clobbered a much better first serve share of 69 percent as opposed to Japanese’s 58
percent and registered an amazing 68 percent win on it.
The Aussie raised the bar of her game in the second set. She unleashed flurry of groundstrokes to reel off first six games in a row to earn a bagel. Rodionova smoothly held her serves without facing any breakpoint and converted
three out of four breakpoint chances to her advantage. In addition to this, she manifested a higher first serve share of 60 percent as compared to her rival’s 39 percent and earned a spectacular 78 percent win on it.
Up next for the Aussie is the thirteenth seeded Kazakh Zarina Diyas who also dumped a Japanese wild card enterer Akari Inoue in straight sets to reach this spot.
Diyas eased past the Japanese with a breadstick in under an hour earlier that day. She lost her serve once but bagged in remaining six games to earn a breadstick in the opening set.
The Kazakh carried her ways in the final set and despite failing to fend off both breakpoints faced. She capitalised on four out of seven breakpoint chances to her advantage to win the set with a 6-3 victory.
Overall, Zarina clobbered a slightly higher first serve share and earned an acceptable 60 percent win on it. However, she capitalised fully over the fourteen double faults the Japanese coughed which made the difference.