Paula Ormaechea snails past Petra Rampre in the second round – XX Copa BBVA Colsanitas 2012
Argentine teenager, Paula Ormaechea, crippled past the Slovenian veteran contestant, Petra Rampre, in the second round of the XX Copa BBVA Colsanitas tournament. On Thursday, both contestants pulled up a thrilling three-setter
that ended after a taxing battle of two hours and 31 minutes. Final scores in favour of the Argentine were 6-4, 3-6, 7-6(4).
Rampre started the match with a successful hold; her opponent followed her with scores progressing to 1-1. The see-saw battle continued until the scores moved to 3-3. A trade of breakpoints between the contestants witnessed
the scores to stay together at 4-4.
Unfortunately for the veteran, she slipped twice in a single game that gifted a couple of points to the teen. Moreover, the trail increased with a cracking winner down the line by the Argentine. It was getting ominous for
the Slovenian competitor who was on the verge of losing the second breakpoints in a row.
She fought back well to deuce but her opponent didn’t allow her to sneak away with a successful hold. After a severe battle including three deuces ended in favour of the teen who took the lead at the critical stage of the
match.
Ormaechea held her serve in the following game, sparing just one point for the veteran and bagged the opening set with no problems at all. Trailing one set down, Rampre was well experience with such situation and showed immense
courage in the second set to bounce back into the match.
She commenced the second set with a successful breakthrough and coupled it with a serve hold to double the lead. However, the teen fought back and sneaked a breakpoint in the fourth game to level the scores at 2-2.
Unfortunately for the Argentine, her serve was broken in the eighth game that gave a monumental lead to her opponent of 5-3. The veteran spared a couple of points before bagging the second set and marching on with the contest.
In the initial stages of the final set, no drama was witnessed but soon the players swapped breakpoints to heat up the contest with the scores ticking over to 3-3. Successful holds at both ends were followed by an exchange
of breakpoints that kept the scores together at 5-5. Both players stayed calm and enforced a tie-breaker round to decide the set.
Rampre was beaten for pace and stamina that gifted the last two points of the tie-break to her opponent who went into the third round of the contest from the opening qualifying stages.
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