Ksenia Pervak annihilates Andrea Petkovic to reach the fourth round – Wimbledon Championships 2011
World number 89, Ksenia Pervak of Russia, kept her part of the bargain with a 6-4, 7-6(2) defeat of Andrea Petkovic in the third round of Wimbledon Championships 2011, being played here at the All England Tennis Club, England.
It was an emphatic loss for the world number thirteen, who was also beaten here last year by Anna Chakvetadze in the first round, but she was clearly suffering from Pervak’s power and variety in game, losing the match in just one
hour 37 minutes.
Two and a half weeks after her final round defeat at the ZLin, in her last tournament, Pervak’s primary objective, to get the job done, was accomplished without too much fuss, though she will not have been too happy with the way
she served in the decider.
The match started with three consecutive breaks and Pervak led 5-2, only to be broken again before eventually closing out the opener, thanks to her huge aces especially when she found herself in a spot of bother at 5-4.
In the opener, Pervak hit two aces, 3 winners and won a whopping 91 percent behind her second serve. Petkovic, while played at her worse, losing the opener with a huge difference of 48 points in her second serve.
The Russian no. 14 could have taken the second set in a pretty similar way before two horribly awkward shots from the Russian, a missed forehand and an easy backhand volley that she sailed wide, gave Petkovic a break for 3-2. Though
Pervak was broken herself, she used the tie-break to take her through to victory in just 65 minutes.
Although, the German No.1 upped the level of her game in the decider, she remained unable to offer any valiant resistance, which could shake Pervak’s foundations. In an attempt to abolish Pervak’s monarchy, the German did enough
to land with a whopping 85 percent on her first serve, but it was to no avail as the Russian had already claimed the match.
Pervak’s blasting performance against the eleventh-seeded Petkovic, led to her status as the bookmaker’s favourite for the fourth round as she meets the sixth-seeded Francesca Schiavone of Italy.
Although she is just 20/16 to Schiavone’s 24/14, the Russian serves well and connecting with her huge forehand, she can pull off the surprise.
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