Galina Voskoboeva ousts Paula Ormaechea to qualify for round three – Family Circle Cup 2012
Galina Voskoboeva of Kazakhstan thrashed the 19-years-old Argentine, Paula Ormaechea, in the second round of the Family Circle Cup on Wednesday. She won the match in straight sets 6-2, 6-3 and booked a date with the second seed
Aussie, Samantha Stosur.
An hour and 21 minutes encounter was totally dominated by the 27-years-old Kazakh who looks improve her career-high ranking with a marvellous performance in this tournament. She was lucky in the opening set to have just played
seven games before the Aussie starlet, Jelena Dokic, retired due to the wrist injury. This was technically her first test and she did well.
Voskoboeva, the 50th ranked contestant was the hot favourite to win the contest against the Argentine qualifier. She had to wait a bit before taking the opening set away from her opponent. In the sixth game of the first
set, she drowned her competitor to register the first breakthrough and take a lead of 4-2. A thumping serve hold in the following game that was constituted with a help of an ace further mounted pressure on her rival.
Ormaechea had to hold her serve in order to keep the set alive but she couldn’t win a single point in the eighth game of the set; gifting away the lead to her opponent and deteriorating her position in the match. She won 21 points
compared to 32 of her rival and also committed a couple of double-faults that severely distorted her first serve accuracy rate.
The second set was not much different from the first especially in the starting phase. Both players registered serve holds to commence the proceedings and traded breakthroughs in the midst of it. Scores were pushed to 3-3 at that
stage.
It looked like the set will go down the wire but the Kazakh took hold of the proceedings; registered a tight serve hold and coupled it with a timely breakthrough to take the lead of 5-3. She gifted two more points to her rival
before clinching the second set and the match.
Stosur should test her nerves better in the third round of the tournament.
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