Olga Puchkova bounces over Olga Savchuk in the 1st qualifier – Roland Garros French Open 2012
Ukrainian tennis star, Olga Savchuk, stooped to the 199th ranked Russian age-fellow, Olga Puchkova, in the opening qualifier of the Roland Garros French Open on Wednesday. The 24-year-old Russian sneaked a win in straight
sets; registering the scores 6-2, 7-6(2).
It was the first battle between the two players and nervy start was expected that was witnessed on the red dirt of Paris. Both players swapped three breakpoints in the ratio of 2:1 to the Russian who took a resounding lead of 3-1
with the first serve hold.
Savchuk failed to hold serve for the third consecutive time and went down to a trail of 1-4. However, she recovered with a breakthrough in the following game but failed to hold serve for the fourth successive time. Puchkova held
her serve for the second time in the set that was good enough to list her winner of the opening set.
The second started well for the Ukrainian who broke serve in the second game to take the lead and swapped breakpoints in the following two to sustain it. She smacked another serve hold to take a lead of 4-1 but that was also the
turning point of the set.
The Russian tennis professional broke serve in the seventh game and levelled the scores to 4-4 with a couple of successive serve holds. An exchange of breakthroughs kept the scores alive and both players enforced the tie-breaker
with serve holds.
With an early mini-break for the Russian, she took the set stole the set under the nose of her rival and booked a spot in the second qualifier. She will lock horns with the top seed Dutch starlet, Kiki Bertens, in the next round.
Other winners of the first qualifiers includes Eva Birnerova, Yurika Sema, Shuai Zhang, Sandra Zaniewska, Garbine Muguruza Blanco, Yuliya Beygelzimer, Elina Svitolina, Madalina Gojnea, Ons Jabeur, Anna Floris, Monica Puig, Lara
Arruabarrena-Vecino, Heather Watson, Leticia Costas Moreira, Iryna Bremond, Misaki Doi, Dinah Pfizenmaier.
The tournament is heating up; the main round matches will start from coming Monday. It will be interesting to see who will win the second Grand Slam of the year.
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