Tetyana Arefyeva beats Anna-Lena Groenefeld to progress to final qualifier round – Swedish Open 2011
World number 254, Tetyana Arefyeva of Ukraine crawled into the final round of qualifier at the Swedish Open 2011 as she scored her second round victory against Anna-Lena Groenefeld of Germany here on Sunday.
The Ukrainian tennis player knocked together a 6-0 advantage before frittering away her first game in the second set. After leading 5-3 in the second set, Arefyeva got hands on an insurance break on a trademark forehand winner
to close out the match taking just 56 minutes of play.
The 20-year-old Ukrainian hammered out an early lead, and despite allowing some break points to Groenefeld, Arefyeva looked surprisingly relaxed and calm. The unseeded Ukrainian was presenting superior self-composure and explosive
tennis at the suitable moments, with a knifed passing shot, and simply incredible forehand winner as she managed to seal the first set with a bagel.
As the second set started, Groenefeld looked to lift her tennis up a notch, and Arefyeva had to control her so that she could not take any early advantage. The Ukrainian did not lose her head and kept dealing with her emotions.
Her German opponent, Groenefeld was playing worse on big points, and even when the German did speed up and swing at the ball on break point, she was tripping, and as the critical break chance flew off, Arefyeva’s confidence grew enormously.
The Ukrainian tennis ace wrapped up her straight sets effort with three aces and a whopping 71 percent on her first serve. Not to mention, she managed to win 69 percent of points on her service, 48 percent on return and a total
of 53 of 89 during the match. In contrast, Groenefeld finished off the match with an acceptable 53 percent on her first serve, a poor 31 percent return and 40 percent of points in total.
The Ukrainian player will be delighted with the results and she well deserved her second victory against the German, having hit some fine winners during the course of the contest. However, the German will be disheartened with her
own lack of consistency and drive that saw her make a number of careless mistakes.
With this win, the Ukrainian woman now leads their head-to-head series to 1-0 against Groenefeld and now marches on into the last round of qualifier, where she will meet Anastasia Grymalska of Italy, who reached the final round
after her Australian opponent, Karolina Wlodarczak was forced to withdraw due to an injury while trailing at 6-0, 6-4, 4-1.
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