Joris De Loore ousts Roberto Baena in second round of Boys’ Singles – Wimbledon Championships 2011
An unexpected outcome in Boys’ singles matchup at Wimbledon Championships was witnessed when the unseeded Belgian, Joris De Loore, defeated the sixth seed Spaniard, Roberto Carballes Baena in the second round of the draws.
Being played at Court 11 of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, England, the three-set thriller featured some high quality boys’ tennis from the two contestants. The Belgian took one hour and forty
seven minutes to conclude victory at 1-6, 6-4, 6-4, to qualify for the third round of the Grand Slam tournament.
The contest was dominated by Baena in the initial stages but a dramatic turnaround from the unseeded Belgian took the following two sets away from his opponent to eject him out of the mega event. The Spaniard failed to sustain
the winning momentum he generated by winning the opener and submitted two consecutive sets to De Loore to let him away with an easy victory.
The Belgium showed his tremendous abilities under extreme pressure from the opponent to recover from one-set deficit and then went on to win the contest later. His below par first serve of just 53 per cent earned him 31 out of
35 points in the match to give him the competitive advantage in the matchup against the sixth seed.
The Spanish cashed in two out of three break opportunities in the contest, while giving 12 chances to break serve to De Loore, who converted two of the break points en route to victory. 21 unforced errors were reported by the Belgian
in the game, which also include five double faults, but he belted 34 thudding winners as well to compensate for them.
The opening set took off with the sixth seed Spaniard in a ballistic mood, breaking the Belgian’s serve two times and kept pushing his opponent out of the game. De Loore posed minimum resistance in the opener and frittered away
four break opportunities with conversions to lose the first set at 1-6.
It appeared from the opening set that Baena will wrap up a straight sets victory in the second set but an unbelievable recovery from De Loore surprised everyone. The Belgian registered his first serve break of the day in the second
set and then again in the third to bag victory at 6-4, 6-4.
De Loore made it into the third round of the tournament, where he will face Sean Berman of the United States for a berth in the quarter-finals of Wimbledon.
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