Julia Glushko breezes past
Zuzana Luknárová in 1st round – Slovak Open 2011
Seventh seeded Israeli Julia Glushko wiped out Slovakian qualifier Zuzana Luknárová in the first round of the Slovak Open 2011.
On indoor hard courts of the Národné Tenisové Centrum in Bratislava, Slovakia, the both competitors duelled against each other. It took the Seventh seeded Israeli one hour and twelve minutes to overthrow the Slovakian qualifier,
Luknárová by thrashing her in straight sets of 6-4, 6-4 on Tuesday the 15th of November 2011.
The first set of the match was initiated Glushko and both the players manage to hold their respective serves in the first two games. In the next two games each player bagged another service game and the score tied at two games
each. From there onwards, the players matched an eye for an eye and the score kept tied at three games each at the end of the sixth game and then at four games each at the end of the eighth game.
However, it was in the ninth game that Luknárová double faulted on her second serve and gifted away a crucial breakpoint to her adversary. On the other hand, Glushko benefitted from a single breakpoint and as she held her serve
for the last time in the opening set, she secured the opening set to go one up in the match.
During the second set, Glushko had taken a notch higher in her service game which assisted her in targeting 77 percent of her first serves. Moreover, she had an average return which aided her accomplishing 53 percent of her total
return points won in the second set.
Inaugurating the second set of the match was Luknárová and both the players were unable to hold their respective serves and instead traded in breaks to ease themselves on the scoreboard at 1-1. In subsequent two games the players
finally held their serves for the first time and bagged their respective games to tie the score at two games each.
Amidst the third and the fourth games the two challengers broke each other one after the other to once more level the game at three games each at the end of the sixth game. By the end of the eighth game the score had balanced at
four games each as each player held her respective serve. In the ninth game Glushko smashed a beautiful backhand winner to secure her last service game and then in the tenth she capitalized on the last breakpoint to seal her victory of the match.
Seventh seeded Israeli reserved a place in the second round where she will be facing either Slovakian Jana Čepelová or Austrian qualifier Nicole Rottmann.
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