Hlavackova/Hradecka cripple Kops-Jones/Spears to reach quarters – Family Circle Cup 2012
Fourth seeded Czechs, Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka, blasted past the American tandem, Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears, with a breadstick at the Family Circle Cup 2012 on Tuesday. They manipulated a 6-3, 6-1 victory over the local starlets to secure a place in the final eight at this WTA (Women’s Tennis Association) Premier tournament held in South Carolina, United States.
The Czech junction displayed their best tennis to outclass Kops-Jones and Spears in an hour-long marathon. Encountering each other for the first time, Hlavackova and Hradecka convincingly booked a spot in the quarter-finals at this green clay court event.
The seeds thundered into the Family Circle Tennis Center and after drawing the first blood in the opening game, they went 2-0 up. Hlavackova and Hradecka cashed in their second break chance in the fifth game and subsequently jumped to a 5-1 lead. Regardless of losing their serve in the eighth game, the Czechs broke their opponents’ serve again and clinched the opener with a 6-3 score line.
Hlavackova and Hradecka perfected their game in the following set and held their serve in the opening game. After the Americans kept their serve in the second game, the Czech duo smashed powerful groundstrokes to wipe out the following five games successively, consequently sealing the set with a breadstick.
All in all, the higher ranked team displayed tremendous co-ordination. They formulated a better first serve share of 69 per cent as compared to the Americans’ 52 per cent and magnificently clicked 22 out of 33 points on it.
The winning pair will next face the winner of the match between Vania King-Anastasia Rodionova collaboration and the Spanish-Kazakh tandem of Anabel Medina Garrigues and Yaroslava Shvedova.
The Polish-Russian junction of Klaudia Jans-Ignacik and Alla Kudryavtseva will accompany the Czechs in the last eight. The high flying pair went berserk and wiped out the opening 10 games in a row before the wild card entrants, Emily J. Harman and Simone Kalhorn, could hold on. Jans-Ignacik and Kudryavtseva then stroke out the last two games and jolted down a spectacular 6-0, 6-1 score line in almost half hour.
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