Lleyton Hewitt falls short once again; Blaz Kavcic clears round 1 – Winston-Salem Open 2011
With the continuation of the 1st round matches, Winston-Salem Open 2011 went on upsetting former world No.1s’ as well. Ranked at the top in Australia and formerly world No.1 Lleyton Hewitt was washed off the Winston-Salem
Open table by the Slovenian 24-year-old, Blaz Kavcic, 6-4, 7-6(3).
Beating the 30-year-old in straight sets Kavcic made a comfortable seat in the second round of the ATP Tour 250 event. It took the Slovenian 99 minutes to take his winning walk for the day at the Wake Forest University Hard court.
Playing for the very first time against the Slovenian, Hewitt once again fell short of proving himself worthy of his former ranking.
The 30-year-old made his way into Wimbledon, Davis Cup and Atlanta Open, however, could not succeed in either one of them.
On the other hand, mesmerizing his fans and making it to the 2nd round, Kavcic eased by the Aussie in straight sets. Finalist to the Karshi Challenger, the Slovenian has a 7 to 3 win loss ratio considering the last 10
matches played.
The strong right-hander, Kavcic, had a better view of the court as he had been successful in the last 5 matches he played on hard court making this his 6th.
Kicking off with the match, Hewitt started off serving first for the first game. The first three games came with back-to-back breakpoints for the two with Kavcic winning the majority, 2-1. The Slovenian peddled up his lead to 3-1.
The former world No.1 did succeed in winning on his serve after game 4 but could not break to level the scores with the 24-year-old. Maintaining his lead, Kavcic drove off to a comfortable 6-4 win in the first set.
Moving on with set 2, Hewitt once again served first and lost again. However, he levelled up the scores winning a breakpoint in the next game and took the lead winning game 3, 2-1. The 30-year-old went amazing when he pulled of
2 games in a row extending his lead to 4-1 with Kavcic to serve next.
The sensational 24-year-old struck back to win 3 games straight to eyeball the Aussie and level the scores at 4-4. The scores hiked up to an eventual tiebreaker game. Hewitt was jolted by the Slovenian as he took away the tiebreaker
sending the Aussie back to kangaroo-land.
Kavcic now goes on to play the Spaniard, Santiago Giraldo, to battle it out for the 3rd round seat at the Winston Salem Open 2011.
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