Marta Domachowska beats Caroline Garcia to reach the second round – Baku Cup 2012
World number 177, Marta Domachowska, escaped the early scare against the 156th ranked French teen, Carolina Garcia, to book a berth in the second round draws of the Baku Cup, contested in Baku.
It was a battle that lasted an hour and 49 minutes and featured some outstanding first phase display from the 18-year-old French who looked set to register an upset in the opening round of the tournament. She was superior ranked
player but the situation was such that the 26-year-old Pole was more experienced and not separated by a lot of points.
The opening set witnessed a serve hold for the Garcia at the start and followed it up with three successful breakpoints falling in the ratio of 2:1 in favour of the French teen.
Garcia consolidated her position with another serve hold and broke serve to take a resounding lead of 5-1. A serve hold to love in the seventh game of the opening set rounded off the proceedings in favour of the French starlet
who started the match as an underdog.
Domachowska commenced the second set with a serve hold to love and traded breakpoints in the third and fourth game that kept the scores tightly packed at 2-2. Both players capitalized on their serves in the following four games
and the scores were pushed to 4-4.
Another exchange of breakthroughs was witnessed at the hard courts of Baku and that pushed the scores to 5-5. However, Garcia was forced to hold serve to enforce the second set tie-breaker but she failed to do so and gifted all
four points on her serve to her rival that ended the set in favour of the Pole.
The final set witnessed a world class thrashing of the 18-year-old French who lost three breakpoints on the trot and couldn’t test her rival at all during the return games. It was a classic bagel to end the scare that must have
lifted the morale of the Pole starlet who was in desperate need of such a thumping win to bring back those glory days when she used to win successive matches with ease.
Domachowska plays third seed professional, Mandy Minella, in the following round.
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