Dinah Pfizenmaier cripples Polina Vinogradova in the opening round – OrtoLaakarit Open 2011
In a match between two qualifiers, German Dinah Pfizenmaier blasted past Polina Vinogradova of Russia with a bagel at the OrtoLaakarit Open 2011, a part of the 2011 ITF Women’s Circuit played on the hard courts in Helsinki, Finland.
She registered a 7-6(3), 6-0 victory over the 18-year-old Russian to secure a second round spot on Tuesday.
Ranked 274th in the Sony Ericsson WTA Premier Rankings, Pfizenmaier put up a solid show of tennis to crush the Russian, ranked 216 places below her, on their first meeting. She not only inched towards the title but also
confidently advanced into the second round.
19-year-old German smoothly entered the hard courts and bagged his opening serve by pinging the balls expertly onto the line. Later the German held remaining serves until she got the first blood in the eleventh game. Despite squandering
his chance of winning the set, Pfizenmaier shined in the tie-breaker and eventually sealed the opener with a 7-6(3) success.
She clobbered a better first serve share of 65 percent as compared to the Russian’s 49 percent and registered a plausible 73 percent win on it. The German defended two out of three breakpoints faced and capitalised on one out of
two breakpoint opportunities to her advantage.
The German teenager went into rage mode in the final set. She unleashed flurry of groundstrokes to go on six match killing spree and earned a bagel. Pfizenmaier faced zero breakpoint and cashed in half of the six breakpoint opportunities
to her advantage. Furthermore, she manifested a better first serve share and earned a spectacular 78 percent win on it.
Next up for the German youngster is the winner of the match between top seed Estonian Kaia Kanepi and Romanian Liana Ungur.
Swiss Amra Sadikovic will be joining Pfizenmaier in the round of sixteen. She bounced from a set down to register a 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 victory over the Estonian, Anett Kontaveit.
15-year-old Estonian made quick in-roads as she broke Sadikovic’s serve twice to pocket the opener with a 6-3 win.
22-year-old Swiss re-gathered his form in the second set. She failed to fend off the only breakpoint came across but converted three out of eleven breakpoint opportunities to her advantage, sealing the equaliser by winning six
games to three.
Sadikovic improved her winning ways in the final set and after capitalising on one out of two breakpoint chances to her advantage, she clinched the decider with a 6-3 win again.
Next up for the Swiss is the winner of the match between fifth seeded Turk Cagla Buyukakcay and German qualifier Nina Zander.
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