Montserrat Gonzalez qualifies for the Girl’s Singles third round – Wimbledon Championships 2011
Coming into this year’s Wimbledon Championships, most bookmakers tagged the sixth-seeded Montserrat Gonzalez as the outright favourite. On Wednesday, the Paraguayan demonstrated that they were so right, beating Sofiya Kovalets
of Ukraine with a 6-0, 6-2 score to progress to the third round of Wimbledon Championships on Tuesday.
Gonzalez, who made it to the Wimbledon Championships second round after beating Katie Boulter of Great Britain, overpowered his unseeded opponent, who managed to win only two games during the whole process.
The sixth-seeded Gonzales from Paraguay needed just 52 minutes to complete the rout as Kovalets was torn asunder in the face of a superior game, hardly abstaining a double bagel by getting on the board in the end of the second
set.
Kovalets had three break points in the opening set when Gonzales served at 4-0, but the Paraguayan saved them with a forehand dagger on the run. That done, the sixth seed closed out the match with a bagel win as Kovalets forehand
went wide.
The Paraguayan wrapped up the first set with eleven winners while committing ten costly unforced errors. Furthermore, she gained 69 percent of points behind her first serve, 63 percent of points behind her second serve and 54 percent
of points on return. By contrast Kovalets committed nine unforced errors while scoring a meagre four unforced errors.
But after losing the opener in such a sleazy way, the Ukrainian suddenly managed to find the range and with the help of some Gonzales errors, she got the break back, putting the score at 1-1 with a brilliant forehand winner that
was right out of the Kovalets treasure trove of shots.
The newly confident Kovalets was not going to back off. She upped the tempo and challenged the sixth-seeded Paraguayan to go toe-to-toe in the rallies, going 2-1.
However, it soon became pretty obvious that the unseeded Kovalets could not maintain the rhythm required to match the sixth-seeded in full flight. Gonzalez seemed to enjoy the battle, showing the younger woman who was the boss
and broke serve in the eighth game of the second set to take it 6-2.
The sixth-seeded Paraguayan concluded her straight sets victory by clinching 22 winners while committing an equal amount of unforced errors, in comparison, Kovalets lost the match by scoring a meager two winners while committing
a whopping seventeen unforced errors.
Up next for the Gonzalez is Petra Rohanova of Czech Republic in the third round of Wimbledon Championships.
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