Pere Riba ousts Jesse Huta Galung to reach the second round – Sparkassen Open CH 2011
World number 71, Pere Riba of Spain is through to the second round of Sparkassen, an event on ATP Challenger Tour, after scoring a routine victory over world number 110 Jesse Huta Galung of Netherlands here today, being played at the clay courts of Braunschweig, Germany. The 23-year-old Spaniard crushed the Dutch in straight sets 6-2, 7-5, taking one hour and thirty minutes of play.
The top-seeded Spaniard outdid his Dutch assailant in every section of the game and in the course of time he secured a straight sets victory. Riba cobbled up ten break point opportunities to break Galung’s serve and converted five of them en route to victory. Although Riba himself experienced two serve breaks in the game, he kept hooking decisive points with perfect timing to gain the major advantage in the contest.
Galung had a bedraggled start to the opener, with a below average serve percentage of just 60 percent. He experienced an early break from the Spaniard but he engineered a serve break in the fourth game to measure up the score at 2-all. However, the belligerent Spaniard enforced some dominant groundstrokes to belt his decisive serve break of the game and was left serving for the set at 5-3.
He sewed up 13 of 21 total service points and exclusively closed out the first set at 6-2 to get one up in the contest.
However, the Dutch perked up the level of his game and had an unrelenting control over his mistakes in the following set. Galung converted one break point opportunity in the second set but the instigating top-seed was up to the task, breaking the Dutch’s serve on two different occasions.
Riba kept imposing massive pressure upon Galung, who eventually decayed in the twelfth game of the second set, losing with five games to seven.
Emerging victorious today, the Spaniard now stands at lifetime 2-0 edge in their head-to-head series and now marches on into the second round of the tournament, where he will face either Eric prodon or Stephane Robert of France.
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