Caroline Garcia eats up Anett Konta to reach the quarterfinals of Girls’ Singles – Wimbledon 2011
Caroline Garcia of France had to work a little harder than expected on Thursday night before beating Anett Kontaveit 6-2, 6(5)-7(7), 6-4 in the third round of the Wimbledon Championships Open.
Kontaveit could only won a second set from Garcia for the first time in her career, but the challenge the Estonian looked to be staging against the second-seeded Garcia by clinching the final two points of the tiebreaker was splattered
quickly in the decider.
Garcia was sounding more than a little bothered after Estonian opponent took the second set with an increasingly confident barrage of undaunted serves and invading forehands. The Estonian’s downfall in the third set, nevertheless,
was as dramatic as her cyclonic second set had been. From 4-4 in the decider she gave up two games subsequently as Garcia won 6-2, 6(5)-7(7), 6-4.
The second-seeded French dwindled a little time in off-loading her magnificent serves and exceptional forehands but her radar went out of order in the second game and the Estonian player matched her all the way until the French
broke back in the eighth game to clinch the opener.
The second set was equally worrisome, going to a tie break, but with the Estonian leading this time around. Once Kontaveit had moved into 6-5 lead, there was no stopping her though, and she concluded the victory with some of her
supreme tennis and effervescent groundstrokes.
Such was the determination Kontaveit endeavoured behind her own serve that Garcia never really had a chance in the tie-break. It was literally a remarkable turnaround and definitely has had a lot to do with Kontaveit’s brilliance.
But a sudden storm hit the decider, when Garcia beat all odds to lead 4-2, much to the displeasure of the Estonian. And by the end of the decider, Garcia was playing with all the confidence she had rediscovered, before her Estonian
opponent went on the attack, forcing a deuce at 4-4.
Nevertheless, Garcia did not appear in any trouble after that, crushing her teeth and punching her fist as she, her opponent and most of the Brit crowd at the All England Tennis Club knew that the battle was over and she deservedly
eased through the decider after cleaving an early break.
With this win, the second seed gets a pass into the quarterfinal of Wimbledon Championships, where she will face sixth-seeded Montserrat Gonzalez of Paraguay.
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