Jarmila Gajdosova labours against Alona Bondarenko in the first round – Wimbledon Championships 2011
Jarmila Gajdosova, the Australian twenty-seventh seed, ground down Alona Bondarenko during a succession of furious rallies to inflict on the world No 104 with a 7-5, 6-3 scoreline.
The 24-year-old, Gajdosova came out on top in most of the drawn-out exchanges in the opening stages and surged into a 4-0 lead that started a nervous mumblings among the Bondarenko’s fans at the All England Tennis Lawn.
However, Bondarenko did claw her way back to 4-5 with a single break to draw level at 5-5, but it was all in vain as the Australian held confidently to break Bondarenko’s serve for the second time to move a set ahead.
Being down one set to love, the Ukrainian began the second set robustly, breaking Gajdosova in the opening game. After breaking her opponent’s serve, Bondarenko indulged into some characteristic fist-pumping but the euphoria did
not last longer as she dropped her serve in the next game to make it 3-3.
Longing for a spot in the second round, the Ukrainian No.1 had to dig deep to stay in the match but was found floored when she went wide with a sliced forehand after another hypnotizing rally on Gajdosova’s decisive match point.
With this win, the 24-year-old Gajdosova has improved her year-to-date win/loss mark to 27/13 matches and now marches on into the third round where she will face Andrea Hlavackova of Czech Republic for the first time in her career.
Among all the lucky winners on Wednesday, Ksenia Pervak of Russia also raced to third round after submitting a 6-2, 1-6, 6-3 loss to France’s Pauline Parmentier in the second round of Wimbledon Championships.
A routine win for the Russian No.15 looked on cards when she took the opening set with a 6-2, scoreline, but the French woman suddenly upped the level and claimed the second set to tie the score at one set apiece. However, the
Russian played callously from there on and refusing to be distracted by her opponent’s mighty shots, Pervak turned the match on its head in the third game of the decider.
The Russian claimed her three-victory taking one hour and fifty minutes. She now storms into the third round of Wimbledon Championships, where she will meet Germany’s Andrea Petkovic for the first time in her career.
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