Jesse Levine breezes past Mirza Basic in final qualies - Charlottesville Challenger 2011
Fourth seeded American Jesse Levine shut the door on sixth seeded Mirza Basic in the final qualifying round of the Charlottesville Challenger 2011.
The two players took up the gauntlet on indoor hard courts of the Boar’s Head Sports Club in Charlottesville, Virginia. It took Levine only fifty eight minutes to thrash Basic in straight sets of 6-3, 6-2 on Monday the 31st
of October 2011.
In the opening set Levine had benefitted from a hundred percent of breakpoints won and with a strong defence and offence managed to accomplish a 63 percent win of his total set points won.
Initiating the first round of the match was Levine and the two players traded in breaks to place themselves on the scoreboard at 1-1. In the following two games they won on alternate service games to rotate the scoreboard at 2-2
by the end of t he fourth game.
During the fifth Levine held his serve and by the sixth, as his adversary double faulted, he squandered two successive games to take a lead of 4-2 on the scoreboard. During the last three games the players once more held their
serves and in doing so; Levine clogged the opening set with a 6-3 victory. He was now one up in the match.
The second set was initiated by Basic, who unsuccessful in holding his serve and instead gifted a game to his adversary. On the other hand, Levine had not only bagged his own service game but also benefitted from a breakpoint to
take a mini lead of 2-0 on the score board. It was in the third game that Basic made a return by holding his serve.
The fourth seed once more held his serve in the fourth game and further shifted the scoreboard at 3-1 by the end of the fourth game. During the subsequent two games, the players once more held their serves to spin the scoreboard
at 4-2 by the end of the sixth game.
In the last two games Levine broke Basic in the seventh game and as he served for the match in the eighth game, he smashed a marvellous backhand winner to seal his victory of the set and the match.
Amidst the second set Levine’s serve was not even broken once and as he powered through the set, he managed to accomplish 62 percent of his total set points.
Levine managed to secure a place in the main draw of the event.
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