Petra Kvitova dumps Varvara Lepchenko to reach the fourth round – Wimbledon Championships 2012
Defending champion, Petra Kvitova, continued with her winning roll at the Wimbledon Championships and has booked a place in the fourth round of the Grand Slam event on Saturday. The world number four Czech outsmarted the unseeded
American opponent, Varvara Lepchenko, in the third round brawl at the All England Club, settling the final score line at 6-1, 6-0, to clear the third round of the mega event.
The Czech number one had no difficulties at all to dispose of the world number 53 in the most assertive manner to sustain the flawless record against her. It was Kvitova who ended the dream run of Lepchenko in this season’s Roland
Garros French Open in the fourth round, beating her 6-2, 6-1 and her Saturday’s victory gave her a 3-0 lead in the all-time head-to-head series against the American.
Kvitova has been battling with chronic injuries throughout the running season and is yet to bag a championship title this year. The fourth seeded Czech is 25-9 in the current season and is looking very strong for her Grand Slam
title defence in London, England. She barely spared one game in the entire matchup for Lepchenko, cruising through the sets with commanding ease and moving into the round of 16.
The 22-year-old delivered 70 per cent of her first serve on target, clinching 23 out of 32 points on it and breaking the American serve five out of seven times in the contest. Lepchenko couldn’t break her opponent’s serve even
once in the entire match, squandering two vital chances to finish on the losing side in the end. Kvitova was very agile in the competition and converted 11 out of 15 net points to get the better of her bleak opponent.
The world number four ignited the opening set with her typical aggressive manner and went on for a five-game killing spree to rocket away to 5-0 lead in no time. Lepchenko held her serve for the first and last time in the sixth
game of the match before submitting the opening set to the left-hander Czech at 1-6.
Nothing changed for the unseeded American in the following set of the match and Kvitova continued with her all-round rampage to inch closer to victory. The defending champion nailed three successive break points to register a bagel,
6-0, and marched into the fourth round of the tournament convincingly.
Kvitova will next face the former French Open champion, Francesca Schiavone, for a place in the quarter-finals.
Tags: