Vera Zvonareva leaves a dismal season behind for a successful comeback at Auckland – Tennis News
Former world number two, Vera Zvonareva, was the player who struggled terrible from the niggling injuries in 2012 and couldn’t manage to play even half of the tournaments scheduled by the Women Tennis Association. She looked sharp
at the start but the chronic injuries sideline the 96th ranked Russian and also hampered her shot making during her few comebacks to the professional circuit.
The 28-year-old Russian started her season at the Apia Sydney International and lost the first game of the season at the hands of her compatriot Svetlana Kuznetsova. She was the seeded player in the contest yet stooped to an inferior
ranked player who has also enjoyed a reign as the second ranked player in the world. In the Australian Open, Zvonareva clinched two victories but couldn’t avoid an upset against another compatriot, the left-handed Ekaterina Makarova in the third round.
Zvonareva won two matches at the PTT Pattaya Open; started the tournament as the top seed but was toppled by the seventh seed Romanian star, Sorana Cirstea, in the third round. However, it wasn’t a natural defeat to the Russian.
She incurred an injury in the third set and had to withdraw from the contest after consulting her medics. It was the start of something terrible for the Russian.
Not a single victory in the Qatar Ladies Open, BNP Paribas Open and Sony Ericsson Open lowered the ranking of the 28-year-old Russian who also failed to clear the quarter-final stage at the Family Circle Cup at Charleston. First
round exit at the Mutua Madrid Open coupled with a third round injury-forced withdrawal in the Wimbledon Championships at London enhanced her miseries. She came back to the All England Lawn Tennis Club for London Olympics but could just clear two rounds before
bowing out to the most successful player of the season, Serena Williams.
Now, the Russian is eyeing a comeback at the tennis circuit at the start of the new season. She has signed up for the ASB Classic in Auckland that will be contested in the first week of January. Let’s hope she is not surrounded
by the injuries again.
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