Sara Errani dumps Coco Vandeweghe in the opening round – Wimbledon Championships 2012
Newly ranked world number 10, Sara Errani of Italy, has an ideal star to another Grand Slam voyage at the Wimbledon Championships this Wednesday, as she dumped the bleak American rival, Coco Vandeweghe, in the opening round brawl.
Seeded at number 10 in the tournament draw for the first time, Errani wrapped up a convincing victory in straight sets, 6-1, 6-3, to reach the round of 64 at the All England Tennis and Croquet Club in London, England.
The crafty Italian has been in a sublime run of form this season and has already bagged three WTA (Women’s Tennis Association) championship titles so far. She beat all the odds to reach the final of the clay court Grand Slam tournament,
the Roland Garros French Open, earlier this month and started off her Wimbledon campaign in the same belligerent manner to ease past the American opponent.
It was a completely one-sided contest, with the world number 10 marshalling Vandeweghe at will throughout the match. She gave limited opportunities to the 20-year-old and cashed in most of her chances to formulate a formidable
score line. Errani was facing the unseeded American for the first time in her professional career and she had no difficulties in getting under her skin right from the beginning of the match. The Italian spared merely one game in the opening set and then three
in the next set to drive her out of the competition comprehensively.
Errani had a 75 per cent accurate first serve in the contest, yielding 27 out of 40 points from it and breaking her opponent six out of 10 times en route to victory. The 10th seeded Italian denied Vandeweghe from converting
four break points but the American still managed to sneak two cracking ones in the match, yet finishing on the losing side in the end.
Vandeweghe played good aggressive tennis, fighting hard for her points and raiding the net on regular occasions. She could barely secure 14 out of 24 net points and coughed 31 unforced errors, including six taxing double faults,
to remain on the back foot all the way through. Errani, on the other hand, was very successful with her calculated stroke play and merely conceded three unforced errors in the entire matchup to come out as the dominant winner.
Errani is slated to face the British number one, Anne Keothavong, in the second round of the Wimbledon Championships later this week.
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