Shuai Peng takes down Ayumi Morita in the second round clash – Shenzhen Open 2013
World number 40, Shuai Peng, advanced to the third round of the Shenzhen Open on Tuesday with her second victory of the tournament against the 85th Japanese professional, Ayumi Morita. On Tuesday, Peng nudged away to
straight sets victory 6-1, 6-1 in just 52 minutes.
She holds a commanding head-to-head record of 8-1 against the 22-year-old Japanese. The local favourite was under the cosh at the start; lost the opening serve game without winning a single point but she came back with a bang and
won six games in a row. Morita lost the plot after gaining an early lead in the match. She was absolutely marshalled throughout the opening set by her rival, who kept placing the ball to the both corners of the court with utmost accuracy.
Peng clinched three breakpoints in a row and didn’t falter on her serve after the first blow. She was hardly tested in the rest of the opening phase which was quite pleasing for the local spectators at the hard courts of Shenzhen.
Morita regrouped to hold serve in the first game of the second set but again fell to the onslaught of her rival, who clinched another hat-trick of breakthroughs and didn’t lose a single point on her serve to make a strong statement
for the upcoming opponents. The crowd enjoyed every point and gave a standing ovation to the winner at the end of the contest.
The 26-year-old Peng smashed four aces in the entire contest and converted 93 percent of the first serves in her favour. However, she was a bit sloppy with the second serve conversion rate of 55 percent but that didn’t hurt her
cause at all as depicted by the commanding score line. Both players committed two double faults in the contest but the former world number 14 was hardly disturbed by them whereas her rival gifted two breakpoints to her.
Peng will next face the unseeded German contestant, Annika Beck, to qualify for the quarter-final round of the WTA International tournament. Beck registered a huge upset in the second round when she stunned the fourth seeded Taiwanese,
Su-Wei Hsieh, with an authoritative score line of 6-3, 6-0.
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