Caroline Wozniacki dispatches Roberta Vinci in the Round Robin battle – Tournament of Champions 212
Former world number one, Caroline Wozniacki, dispatched the 16th ranked Italian star, Roberta Vinci, on the second day of the Qatar Airways Tournament of Champions in Sofia. The 22-year-old Dane won the match in straight
sets 6-3, 6-1, utilizing just 68 minutes at the indoor hard courts of Bulgaria.
The Dane has won both her Round Robin matches and looks to clean sweep the field by disposing off the Slovak superstar, Daniela Hantuchova, on Thursday. She is not showing any respect for any contestant; thrashing her rivals with
utmost ease and stamping her authority with every win. It looks like the old Wozniacki is back on track with a new motivation to win titles.
It was a Halloween revenge for the 11th ranked Dane who lost her first head-to-head encounter to Vinci in the second round of the Rogers Cup, earlier this season. She was not going to hang in for long at the courts and
that message was forwarded by her sublime barrage of winners coming across the throat of the 29-year-old Italian tennis ace.
Wozniacki proclaimed after the match, “It was a difficult match in the sense that I had to really keep focused. She's not a player where you get a lot of rhythm, with the slice on the backhand and the flat forehand, so I had to
make sure I was just focusing on my own serve and returns, and just kept pushing her.”
She further added, “I'm just very pleased about the way I'm playing. I'm really enjoying myself out there. I feel like I've found my game again and I'm playing the way I want to; right now I'm just thinking of winning this tournament.”
No damage was done for the first six games despite two close games; one for each contender. The steady start from the Dane took a u-turn when she launched an onslaught in the sixth game against the experienced Italian. The deadlock
was broken after an intense battle and the winner of the breakthrough was Wozniacki. She sustained the lead until the end, despite a close game at the end.
In the second set, the Dane played her natural game and manoeuvred the ball at her will. She won three breakthroughs in a row and didn’t falter once on her serve to end the set in just seven games. It was a kind of throttle that
will help the Dane to build some momentum before entering the last four stage of the event.
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