Valeria Savinykh ousts Yurikh Sema to reach the second qualifier - Guangzhou Int’l Women's Open 2012
World number 125, Valeria Savinykh, registered thumping straight sets score line of 6-2, 6-0 against the 168th ranked Japanese professional, Yurikh Sema, to book a spot in the second qualifying round of the GRC Bank
Guangzhou International Women's Open on Saturday. She took just 66 minutes to bamboozle her opponent and inch a step closer to the main round of the tournament.
Sema commenced the encounter in a conventional manner; holding serve but not before she was forced to win a game from a stage of deuce. The 21-year-old Russian made no mistake on her serve and bagged it with ease. Moreover, she
enhanced the tempo of the game and made it uncomfortable for her rival; returning the shots at extreme fast pace and that yielded the breakpoint for her. She scuttled past her opponent in the fourth game holding her serve to make it 3-1 in her favour.
The Japanese player was under the cosh to bounce back from a massive trail. She was extremely frustrated by her display and that didn’t help her cause at all. She was tested again on her serve in the fifth game of the match but
did well to survive the scare and register a serve hold. However, the trail was still hanging on her head and she had to respond back but instead lost serve game that drowned her to a trail of 2-5.
Savinykh was under a lot of pressure in the final game of the opening set but the warrior hood of the Russian fifth seed helped her to squeeze a serve hold and win the opening set. It was a massive result for the 125th
ranked Russian because she has not been in good run of form in the recent past and needed such a game to lift her confidence level.
The second set unleashed the true colours of the fifth seed Russian. She began with a breakthrough and bagged the serve game to make it 2-0 in her favour. From that stage, there was no coming back for Savinykh as she gusted away
her rival with an emphatic bagel. Up next for the Russian is Tetiana Luzhanska of America.
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