Kimiko Date-Krumm cripples Rishika Sunkara to enter round two – Royal Indian Open 2012
Japanese contender, Kimiko Date-Krumm, devastated the local qualifier, Rishika Sunkara, with a bagel at the Royal Indian Open 2012 on Tuesday. She jolted down a 6-0, 6-3 victory against the 19-year-old to power into the second round at this WTA (Women’s
Tennis Association) Challenger event taking place in Pune, India.
Seeded fifth in this event, Date-Krumm reeled off opening seven games before carving out the victory in straight sets in their first meeting. After registering the success in just under an hour, the Japanese comfortably secured a place in the round of 16
at this outdoor hard court event.
Date-Krumm went berserk after entering the Balewadi Sports Complex. She unleashed barrage of groundstrokes to wind up opening six games. The Japanese dusted away both breakpoints she came across and cashed half of the six break chances to bag the opener
with a bagel.
Ranked 146th in the WTA Premier Rankings, Date-Krumm lost her path towards the following set. She suffered the first blow in the opening game and trailed at 0-1. The Japanese recovered in the very next game but gifted away her serve again, eventually
going 1-2 down. However, she re-focused after that and reeled off proceeding three games with two breaks of serve. Regardless of losing her edge in the seventh game, Date-Krumm capitalised on another break chance and eventually sealed the set by winning six
games to three.
The 42-year-old outclassed her rival completely. She clobbered a slightly lower first serve share of 69 per cent as compared to the Indian’s 70 per cent but magnificently clicked 24 out of 34 points on it. She also spilled fewer double faults and ended the
match with 58 points.
Up next for Date-Krumm is the Chinese contender, Yi-Miao Zhou, who crushed her compatriot, Yi-Fan Xu, with a bagel to set up this meeting.
The top seed, Nina Bratchikova, will join the Japanese in the following round. She dumped the Thai challenger, Nudnida Luangnam, in straight sets to progress. The Russian seed dropped her serve once but availed three out of seven break chances to formulate
a 6-4, 6-3 score line in one hour and 46 minutes.
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