Tamarine Tanasugarn ousts Mathilde Johansson in 2nd round – HP Japan Open 2011
Thai Tamarine Tanasugarn showed the door to French Mathilde Johansson in the second round of the HP Japan Open 2011. After one hour and twenty five minutes on the outdoor hard courts of Utsubo Tennis Center in Osaka, Japan, the
Thai outsmarted the Frenchwoman in straight sets of 6-2, 6-4 on Wednesday the 12th of October 2011.
The first round was initiated by the Frenchwoman, who was a higher ranked player as compared to Tanasugarn. Both the players skilfully won on alternate service games in the first two games and rotated the scoreboard at 1-1. First
to slip was Johansson, who double faulted on her second serve and endorsed a game to her adversary. As Tanasugarn held serve in the fourth game, she was leading on the scoreboard with a 3-1.
During the fifth and the sixth game both the players managed to bag a game on their alternate serves and the scoreboard had rotated to 3-2 with Tanasugarn leading. The Thai then shifted a notch higher in her performance and utilized
the serve-break technique to further increase the lead to 5-2. By the end of the seventh game, Tanasugarn was now only a game away from victory and as she smashed two successive aces she bagged the opening set with a deftly 6-2 victory.
The second set of the match was initiated by Johansson and she held serve to open the scoreboard at 1-0. Following right behind her was her rival, who too placed herself on the scoreboard with a 1-1. In the following two games
the players once again won on alternate service games and tied the score at 2-2.
They matched a blow for a blow and the score balanced of at 3-3 by the end of the sixth game as the players broke each other one after the other. Tanasugarn then capitalized on a breakpoint and as she held serve in the eighth game
she took the lead with a 5-3 score. During the last two games the players held serve with Tanasugarn conquering the set with a 6-4 win.
Tanasugarn was expertly able to reserve a spot in the third round of the HP Japan Open 2011.
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