David Ferrer crawls past Ryan Sweeting in round two – Australian Open 2012
Spanish number two, David Ferrer, faced one of the toughest encounters of his life against the American, Ryan Sweeting, in the second round of the Australian Open tournament. After a tiring hard fought battle that was prolonged
to five sets, Ferrer clinched a spot in the third round of the tournament with a score of 6-7(4), 6-2, 3-6, 6-2, 6-3.
A lot of Spanish fans were present at Show Court 2 in Melbourne, Australia; supporting their tennis ace all the way to dodge the possible upset that was hinted by the analysts as well. It was something that everyone in the arena
had expected, prior to the start of the match.
The Spaniard picked up the momentum by breaking serve in the second game. His opponent had to wait quite a bit for his return break; in the ninth game Ferrer made couple of unforced errors that gave the advantage to Sweeting. The
American broke serve and held the next game to level the scores at 5-5. Tie-breaker round was enforced and luckily for Sweeting, his opponent made another mistake by double faulting that was capitalized by the American.
Trailing one set down, Ferrer broke serve in the first game and hammered his opponent all the way; broke serve once again in the fifth game to attain a monumental lead of 4-1. The Spaniard spared just two games for his opponent
in the second set and levelled the set scores with 1-1. Third set was one of the cracking battles between the two contestants; although the score line doesn’t do justice to Ferrer, as his brilliant display was followed up with poor execution of finishing shots.
Sweeting with the crucial break in the sixth game took the set.
Once again trailing one set down, veteran Spaniard composed him and broke in the fourth game to take the lead; he struck another serve break in the sixth game to hammer down his opponent. Two successive break point conversions
were traded in the next two games and that ended the set in Ferrer’s favour. Final set started vigilantly as both players were reluctant to take any sort of risk. With just a single break serve in the second last game of the set for Ferrer earned him the crucial
win that moves the Spaniard in the last 32 players.
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