Jill Craybas moves past Sachie Ishizu into final qualifying round – Toray Pan Pacific Open 2011
Qualifying fifth seed, America’s Jill Craybas flushed away Japanese Sachie Ishizu with a bagel on her home soil on Friday. She registered a 7-5, 6-0 victory over the local star to reach the final round of the qualifiers at the
Toray Pan Pacific Open Tennis 2011, a WTA Premier 5 event held on the hard courts in Tokyo, Japan.
The blissful American showed her true form in the second set to dump Ishizu in one hour and eleven minutes from the Ariake Coliseum.
Both players put up a solid display of tennis in the opening set and exchanged three breaks early on. The Japanese however, ran out of steam in the last two games.
Craybas on the other hand capitalised on her fourth breakpoint opportunity to her advantage in the end to seal the victory by winning seven games to five.
The seed raised the level of her game in the final set. She warded off the only breakpoint faced and converted all three breakpoint chances to her advantage to reel off all six games in a row and to earn a bagel in under half an
hour.
The American formulated a higher first serve share of 63 percent as opposed to the Japanese’s 55 percent and registered an impressive 64 percent win on it. She cashed in on all of her breakpoint chances to her advantage to pull
out this convincing success.
Craybas will now square off against Japanese, Ryoko Fuda in the next round. Fuda stunned her fifteenth seeded Compatriot, Junri Namigata in straight sets to reach this spot.
Another American joining Craybas in the final qualifier is the qualifying second seed Coco Vandeweghe, who trashed Japanese Aiko Nakamura in straight sets in one hour and twenty-three minutes.
The higher ranked American committed eight double faults and clobbered a lower first serve share but registered a tremendous 77 percent win on it. In addition to this, she saved three out of four breakpoints came across and capitalised
on four out of seven breakpoint opportunities to her advantage to clinch the match with a 6-3, 6-2 victory.
She will next face her countrywoman; Abigail Spears who upset twelfth seeded Romanian Madalina Gojnea in three sets.
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