Urszula Radwanska stuns Pauline Parmentier in round one – Roland Garros French Open 2012
World number 79, Urszula Radwanska, reached the second round of the Roland Garros French Open after registering straight sets 6-4, 6-3 victory over the 62nd ranked French, Pauline Parmentier, on Tuesday.
It was a biggest setback for the home crowd who wanted the 26-year-old local to win the encounter, especially considering her higher rank but it went the other way. Probably the shadow of the Pole number one, Agnieszka Radwanska,
has started to affect her younger sister as well who is playing some fantastic tennis in the recent past.
Previously, Parmentier had defeated the Pole on two different occurrences and lost once. So, all the odds were tilting the result in favour of the French but the visitor defied all the factors and won the battle to tie the head-to-head
scores at 2-2.
The first set pretty close until the end. Both players were reading the mind of their opponent to perfection and capitalizing on their serves to keep the scores together. The visitor was forced to save a couple of breakpoints in
the opening serve game but she did well to hold on and don’t gift an early lead to her competitor.
In the rest of the games, there was hardly any resistance shown by either of the players in the return games except the final game. 21-year-old Pole dug deep; wasted two breakpoints but converted the third one to her favour and
took the set under the nose of her rival. No one expected such a sudden end to a classic set.
A sudden turnaround shook the local who couldn’t focus in the early stages of the second set as well and dropped an early breakpoint. However, she recovered with a breakthrough in the third game but gifted the lead back in the
following serve game.
Radwanska held on to her serve for the second time in the set and took a lead of 4-1. However, her rival was still looking to hold serve but she couldn’t in the third attempt either. She went down to a trail of 1-5 and that enforced
her to a ‘do or die’ situation.
Parmentier broke serve in the seventh game to keep the set alive but she couldn’t repeat the heroics again in the ninth game and lost the match in front of her home crowd.
Urszula Radwanska contests against the likes of fourth seed Czech, Petra Kvitova, in the next round of the tournament.
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