Francesca Schiavone loses to Tamira Paszek in the third round – Wimbledon Championships 2011
Sixth seeded Italian Francesca Schiavone was one set up but later lost her concentration to exit from the third round against Austrian Tamira Paszek at Wimbledon Championships 2011, third of the four Grand Slam event held on grass
courts in London, United Kingdom. She registered a 6-3, 4-6, 9-11 defeat in this hard fought battle on Saturday.
Both players displayed awe-inspiring skills in this nail biter match held on Court twelve of this ALL England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club. Meeting for the fifth time and after the match was levelled at one set, Paszek took a lead
by 3-2 in the final set before the rain suspended the match. The duel resumed next day on the same court and the 31-year-old Schiavone trailed to exit from this event in troublesome three sets in a three hours and forty-one minutes match.
The clay court specialist, who recently made a final berth French Open before losing to Chinese Li Na, raged into the opening set and held her opening serve. She failed to save both breakpoints conceded but converted three out
of ten breakpoint opportunities to her advantage to clinch the opener with a 6-3 win in forty-five minutes. Schiavone registered an impressive 67 percent win on her slightly lower first serve share.
The unseeded Austrian roared back with similar stats in the second set. She saved only one out of three breakpoints faced but converted three out of seven breakpoint chances to her advantage to bag the equaliser with a 6-4 win
in fifty-two minutes. Paszek took full advantage on the thirteen unforced errors the Italian committed and earned a plausible 60 percent win on it.
A former world number four, Schiavone lost the serve in the first game to trail 2-4 after the match was resumed on Saturday. She quickly counters attacked by snatching the break back in the very next game. The match went on and
the Italian finally got the crucial break in the fifteenth game and managed to hold on to her serve with difficulty in the next game. However, Schiavone failed to score a point in the eighteenth game to gift away her serve and levelled the score. The exhausted
Italian then failed to penetrate through Paszek’s defences in the next game and sliced wide in the twentieth game to lose the match.
20-year-old Paszek is through to the fourth round where she will face Russian Ksenia Pervak who also upset a seeded player to reach this spot. The Russian triumphed over German Andrea Petkovic in straight sets.
Paszek had reached the fourth round at SW-19 four years back and is eyeing to improve her best record here by reaching the last eight.
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