Galina Voskoboeva gets rid of Iveta Benesova in 2nd round – Hansol Korea Open 2011
Unseeded Kazakh Galina Voskoboeva got rid of unseeded Czech Iveta Benesova in the second round draw of the Hansol Korea Open 2011. Battling it out for one hour and thirty eight minutes on the hard courts of Olympic Tennis Courts
in Seoul, South Korea, the Kazakh won in straight sets of 6-4, 6-4 on the 22nd of September 2011.
It was a wondrous day for Voskoboeva, who had never won a match against the Czech in the four times they had competed against each other. Playing for the fifth time and opting to serve first was Voskoboeva. Although, she got off
to a bad start broken in the first game, she was not going to let her defeat take control over her and with an astounding resoluteness broke back in the second game to equalize the score at 1-1.
During the following two games both the players held their serve to tie the score at 2-2 and then again at 3-3 as they again broke each other back to back in the fifth and sixth game. By the end of the seventh and the eighth game
the players won on alternate games.
Matching blow for blow the players rallied till the eighth game to square off the score at 4-4. At such a crucial stage of the game Voskoboeva did not falter under pressure and held her serve. In the tenth game she was waiting
for her Czech rival to make a mistake, and pouncing at the first opportunity to break the Czech she won the first set of the match.
Voskoboeva was again to serve first, but this time she was playing with an astonishing resoluteness to secure her victory. Dominating from the very start, she capitalized on an early break in the second game and by the end of the
third game; she was leading with a 3-0.
Benesova kicked back into the set in the fourth game and for the first time held her serve, she then went on to breaking Voskoboeva in the fifth game and the end of the sixth had tied the score at 3-3. During the seventh and sixth
game, the players broke each other back to back and rounded off the score at 4-4.
The Kazakh player then went on to holding her serve in the ninth game by smashing an ace at 40-love and by the tenth game she was praying for a lucky break. Amazingly, Voskoboeva forced an error from her old-fangled rival and was
expertly able to bag her first match.
Voskoboeva moves into the quarterfinal where she will play either her doubles partner, Vera Dushevina or Romaine Alexandra Dulgheru.
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