Date-Krumm/ Zhang get rid of Chinese Liu/ Sun in quarterfinal – HP Japan Open 2011
Fourth seeded team of Kimiko Date-Krumm with Shuai Zhang overpowered the Chine couple of Wan-Ting Liu with Sheng-Nan Sun in the quarterfinal of the HP Japan Open 2011. The crews battled racquets on the outdoor hard courts of Utsubo
Tennis Center in Osaka, Japan on Thursday the 13th of October. It took just sixty seven minutes for the Japanese Date-Krumm and Chinese Shuai Zhang to oust the Chinese duo in straight sets of 6-3, 6-3.
Liu/ Sun had opted to serve first in the initial round of the match and they had bagged the initial with much ease to place themselves at 1-0 on the scoreboard. They then went on to breaking their adversaries in the second game
and took a mini lead of 2-0. In the following two games the teams broke each other one after the other and the scoreboard had spun to 3-1 with Liu/ Sun leading in the game.
It was in the fifth game that Date-Krumm/ Zhang capitalized on a breakpoint and then as they held serve in the sixth game, they tied the score at 3-3. The Chinese couple matched a blow for a blow but they lost steam in the seventh
game when they double faulted and endorsed a crucial break to their adversaries. At this point Date-Krumm/ Zhang took a mini lead and as they again repeated the serve-break technique, they conquered the opening set with a 6-3 victory.
The second set was initiated by Date-Krumm/ Zhang and this time they capitalized on an early break in the second game and as they held serve for the third, they placed themselves at 3-0 on the scoreboard. It was in the fourth game
that Liu/ Sun made a return by holding their first service game against their opponents.
During the fifth and the sixth games the squads broke each other end-to-end and the scoreboard had shifted to a 4-2 with Date-Krumm/ Zhang leading in the second set. They again repeated the feat of expertly handling their serves
in the following two games. By the end of the eighth game the fourth seeded duo were only a game away and as they held serve for the last time, they smashed a beautiful backhand winner and in doing so; conquered the set and the match.
Next up for the Japanese/ Chinese duo in the semi final is the; Austrian Jarmila Gajdosova with the big hitting German, Angelique Kerber.
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