Piia Suomalainen vaporises Irina Buryachok in opening round – OrtoLaakarit Open 2011
A local wild card entrant, Piia Suomalainen bulldozed over Ukrainian Irina Buryachok with a bagel at the OrtoLaakarit Open 2011, an ITF event taking place on the hard courts in Helsinki, Finland. She reeled off last nine games
in a row to register a 6-4, 6-0 success over the 25-year-old Buryachok and booked a second round place on Tuesday.
World number 399 Suomalainen crippled the Ukrainian, ranked 140 spots above her in the Sony Ericsson WTA Premier Rankings, after giving her top notch performance on their first meeting. After earning success from this one hour
and sixteen minutes long battle, the Finn comfortably advanced into the second round.
27-year-old local starlet made a nervy entry on the Finn courts as she lost her opening serve in the second game and subsequently went 3-0 down. From this point onwards, the Finn raised the bar of her game and recovered in the
fifth game. After the Ukrainian held her serve for the first time in the seventh game, Suomalainen re-kindled her spark again and stroke out last three games, sealing the opener with a 6-4 score line.
The Finn formulated a slightly lower first serve share of 56 percent as opposed to Buryachok’s 56 percent and earned a fabulous 64 percent win on it. Despite failing to save the only breakpoint faced, she converted two out of six
breakpoint opportunities to her advantage.
Suomalainen went out of control in the second set. She bombarded powerful groundstrokes from her box of tricks and went on a six game rampage, pocketing a bagel. The Finn faced zero breakpoint and capitalised on three out of four
breakpoint chances to her advantage. In addition to this, Suomalainen produced a higher first serve share of 37 percent in contrast with Ukrainian’s 33 percent and registered a spectacular 86 percent win on it.
Next challenge for the local star is the winner of the match between eighth seeded Lithuanian Lina Stanciute and Russian qualifier Daria Gavrilova.
Sixth seeded Slovak Jana Capelova will join the Finn in the second round. She battled past Croatian lucky loser Silvia Njiric in a three set thriller in exactly two hours on their first encounter.
18-year-old Slovak saved four out of nine breakpoints came across and cashed in half of the fourteen breakpoint opportunities to her advantage, sealing the deal with a 7-5, 3-6, 6-1 score line. Regardless of committing eleven double
faults and a slightly lower first serve share, the seed registered an acceptable 56 percent win on it and confidently advanced in this event.
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