Evgeniya Rodina stuns Julia Goerges in 2nd round – Generali Ladies Linz 2011
Sixth seeded German Julia Goerges was ousted from the second round after registering a 3-6, 4-6 defeat against the Russian lucky loser, Evgeniya Rodina on Wednesday. Rodina confidently advanced into the quarter-finals of the Generali
Ladies Linz 2011, a WTA International tournament taking place at the Intersport Arena in Linz, Austria.
World number 21, Goerges displayed dismal performance in the second round of this tier-II event and after one and half hour, she suffered a straight set defeat on their third meeting.
22-year-old German made a shaky entry at the Austrian’s indoor hard courts and lost her opening serve in the second game to go 2-0 down. Regardless of bagging her remaining serves through angled shots, the initial blow was too
much to swallow and suffered a 3-6 loss.
Goerges formulated a higher first serve of 58 percent as compared to the Russian’s 51 percent and earned a plausible 67 percent win on it. She also saved three out of four breakpoints faced but failed to cash in on both breakpoint
opportunities to her advantage.
The seed repeated her ways in the final set and lost and early serve to subsequently go 3-1 down. She lost her blood again in the seventh game and despite showing some resistance by snatching a break back, Goerges sealed the set
with a 4-6 loss.
She registered impressive stats as the German hammered four aces, manifested a better first serve share of 69 percent as opposed to Rodina’s 50 percent and earned an acceptable 60 percent win on it. Goerges also capitalised on
the only breakpoint chance to her advantage but she warded off one out of three breakpoints came across to suffer this defeat.
Rodina, ranked eighty-three places below her in the Sony Ericsson WTA Premier rankings, on the other side avenged her last year’s loss at Biarritz. After earning this success, she not only booked a final eight spot in this event
but also took lead in the head-to-head series by 2-1 against Goerges. The Russian will next face the winner of the match between third seeded Serb Jelena Jankovic and British lucky loser Anne Keothavong.
Sabine Lisicki, another seeded German, saw the exits door the same day. The fifth seeded Lisicki fought back hard but was eventually ousted in an hour and fifty-one minutes match in the opening round.
The German made a comeback in the second set but after saving only three out of nine breakpoints faced, she sealed the deal with a 5-7, 6-4, 3-6 defeat against the Italian Alberta Brianti.
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