Tomas Berdych ousts Kevin Anderson in round two – Mutua Madrid Open 2012
Czech tennis ace, Tomas Berdych, ousted the 35th ranked South African, Kevin Anderson, in the second round of the Mutua Madrid Open. Final scores were 6-4, 6-3.
On Tuesday, both players locked horns an hour and 20 minutes and entertained the crowd thoroughly with some sublime display of all round shots. The sixth seed Czech played some fascinating strokes that delighted the spectators
in the arena. Anderson was not so far behind him but his luck was completely out that led to his downfall.
Both players stayed neck-to-neck throughout the opening set except the last few moments when the Czech starlet showed his guile and ability to turnaround things in his favour. Berdych was leading the scores 5-4 having saved a breakpoint
in the opening game of the set.
He slowed the tempo of the play in the final game and finally placed a delicate drop shot that stretched the South African wide open but left him out of the hook. It was the turning point in the match and all expectations of any
sort of upset were drained away at that stage.
Berdych is known to be devastating when he gets going and Tuesday was his day. He bagged the serve games with ease and broke serve in the sixth game to take a lead of 4-2. Anderson stayed in the hunt to win the break back and level
the scores but the Czech gave him no opportunity to at all to drive back into the match.
World number seven ended the match in emphatic fashion; smashing a couple of aces on the trot to take his tally of aces to 11 in the whole match. He won 60 points in total and spared 48 for his rival. It was his second head-to-win
against the 25-year-old South African. Up next for the Czech tennis ace is the 12th seed French, Gael Monfils.
Monfils defeated Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany in an epic three-setter to book a date with the Czech. The top seed Serb, Novak Djokovic, also started his blue clay court campaign with a win against the Spanish representative,
Gimeno-Traver Daniel.
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