Marion Bartoli cruises into the fourth round after dumping Julia Goerges – French Open 2011
Eleventh seeded French Marion Bartoli made a comeback victory over the seventeenth seeded German Julia Goerges in a three set thriller at 2011 Roland Garros, a WTA Slam event held in Paris, France. She registered a 3-6, 6-2, 6-4
win over the world number eighteen, German in front of her home crowd on Friday.
26-year-old Frenchwoman bounced from a set down to seal the deal in almost two hours against Goerges, four years younger than her, at Stade Roland Garros. Bartoli re-focused her strategy in the second set to keep the winning record
in the head-to-head series by 4-0 against the German.
Goerges thundered into the Court Philippe Chatrier and broke Bartoli’s serve in the very first game to face the resentment from the crowd. She kept her rage mode on and reeled off the next three games in a row before the Frenchwoman
could hold on in the fifth. The German later held her serve and exchanged a break in the last two games to clinch the set with a 6-3 win. She hammered sixteen winners to Bartoli’s five and converted three out of four breakpoint opportunities to her advantage
to win easily in thirty-three minutes.
Bartoli seemed to have been playing with the German as she entered the second set on a completely different level. She held her opening serve to level the scores at 1-1 and got on board. After she was trailing 1-2, the Frenchwoman
unleashed flurry of ground strokes to win next five games in a row. She produced an awesome first serve share of 82 percent as opposed to Goerges 72 percent and registered a plausible 78 percent win on it.
Both players raised their level of game in the final set and played their best tennis. However, after the German held her serve in the first game, Bartoli went on fire and reeled off next four games in a row with her blistering
forehands. Although she lost her ways afterwards and lost the next three games, Bartoli managed to keep her serve in the tenth game to pocket the set with a 6-4 score line in fifty-three minutes. She produced a similar first serve share but clobbered only
three unforced errors to Goerges’ thirteen which made the difference.
Ranked eleventh in the Sony Ericsson WTA Premier rankings, Bartoli displayed tremendous skills at Indian Wells and Strasbourg this year as she made it to the title match. She entered this major clay court event in full confidence
and triumphed over Georgian Anna Tatishvili and Belarusian qualifier Olga Govortsova in the first two rounds in three sets.
Up next for the Frenchwoman is the Argentinean Gisela Dulko who stunned eighth seeded Australian Samantha Stosur in three sets to reach this spot.
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