Angelique Kerber advances into last eight; Julia Goerges departs – ASB Classic 2012
Major upset of ASB Classic tournament was seen on Wednesday, when the fifth seed German tennis ace, Julia Goerges, was stunned by her compatriot, world number 32, Angelique Kerber, in straight sets 6-2, 6-3. The contest was played
on hard courts in Auckland, New Zealand and a sizeable gathered in the showground witnessed one of the most talented and gorgeous participant bowing out to an inferior ranked opponent.
Kerber had her revenge of the first head-to-head defeat that was way back in October 2010 in the Luxembourg Open, where the two players locked horns for the first time in their professional career. It was clearly a majestic upset
because the inferior ranked German was already struggling to find her sublime form, (depicted by her recent past results) whilst her compatriot had just lost one of her last five encounters. No one predicted such an easy straight set win for Kerber.
23-years-old, Kerber was on top of her game from the start and spared nothing at all for her 21st ranked compatriot. She started with a successful serve game and doubled her lead by breaking Goerges’s serve in the next.
She continued her dominance and pushed the score to 3-0 in the next game.
Spectators were delighted to see such a majestic start from the underdog but wanted the hot favourite Goerges to reply back soon. World number 21, Goerges looked completely out of touch and never seemed to have settled her eye
in the contest. She struggled to get her serves right on multiple occasions that dismantled her confidence.
At the score of 5-2, Goerges faced a do or die situation and had to win every single game in order to keep the set alive. She couldn’t help herself to contain the serve game and lost the break point. With one set up and cruising,
Kerber wasted no chance to capitalize on the low confidence of her compatriot and started the second set in similar fashion as the first.
She broke in the second game and enhanced her lead to 3-0 in the next game. Fifth seed seemed to have completely lost her ideal touch and was no way near her sublime form. She managed to hold on to her serves in the remaining games
but couldn’t find that additional instinct to break her opponent’s serve that would have brightened her chances of qualifying for the quarter-finals.
Angelique Kerber sees the toughest competitor of the tournament, top seed Sabine Lisicki, in the quarter-finals.
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