Jarmila Gajdosova stuns Agnieszka Radwanska in the Madrid Open
Australian Jarmila Gajdosova upset tenth seeded Polish Agnieszka Radwanska in a three set thriller on Tuesday. She registered a 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 victory over the 22-year-old to advance into the third round of the 2011 Mutua Madrilena
Madrid Open.
31st ranked Australian bounced back from a set down to seal the deal in one hour and forty-eight minutes against the Polish, ranked 20 places above her. Both veterans faced each other for the first time and Gajdosova
took the lead in their head-to-head series by 1-0.
24-year-old Aussie is in awesome form this season so far. She clinched the title at Hobart in the start of the season and reached far at Brisbane, Kuala Lumpur and Estoril before coming to Madrid. She entered confidently in this
WTA Premier Mandatory event and triumphed over Maria Kirilenko in three sets in the first round.
Radwanska is also in great shape. She made quarter-final berths at Melbourne Grand Slam, Dubai and Miami and reached semi-finals at Stuttgart. The Polish had earlier trashed Kazakh Yaroslava Shvedova in the first round here.
In her match against Gajdosova, the seed smacked three aces and produced a higher first serve share of 79 percent as compared to the Aussie’s 54 percent. She earned a convincing 65 percent win on it and clobbered zero double faults.
Radwanska failed to save the only breakpoint faced but converted two out of five breakpoint opportunities to her advantage to clinch the set with a 6-3 win.
Gajdosova re-focused and re-formed in the second set. Regardless of producing a similar first serve share, she registered an impressive 74 percent win on it. The Aussie then saved both breakpoint conceded and converted one out
of two breakpoint opportunities to her advantage to make it her set by 6-3 score line.
The Australian lost her ways into the final set and was trailing 3-0 when she got back on track. She unleashed flurry of ground strokes to reel off proceeding six games in a row to seal the set by winning six games to Radwanska’s
three.
"I've been getting better at it as I've gotten older. I don't have any specific strategies but everything usually comes with age and experience. I've done it the last few matches and I'll keep trying to fight whenever I'm down,"
said the beaming Aussie.
She will next face the winner of the match between seventh seeded Serb Jelena Jankovic and Czech Lucie Safarova.
"I've been fighting as much as I can this week, even when I was down in both matches," Gajdosova said. "I like the courts. They're a little bit faster with the altitude and my game seems to be working. I will try my best in the
next round."
She is trailing against Jankovic by 0-4 and is tied against Safarova by 2-2 in their head-to-head series.
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