Wimbledon 2010: Match Review Vera Zvonareva vs. Tsvetana Pironkova
The twenty one seeded Russian tennis sensation Vera Zvonareva knocked down the Bulgarian player Tsvetana Pironkova in the semi final match at the All England Club. Vera won the close contest in the end with a 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 match set in order to confirm her spot in the final of this season’s Wimbledon.
Pironkova who earlier hammered the American Venus Williams in their encounter, did begin the game intensely however couldn’t tackle the pressure well against her opponent Zvonareva as the match proceeded.
“The girl started extremely well”, said Vera, “however I am glad that I made it into the finals”. According to her, she was pretty confident of her victory over Tsvetana after the first set of the match.
The only think the girl did after the first set of the match was that she increased her pace of the game. Vera’s aggressive style of the game earned her twenty nine points during her clash with Pironkova. On the other hand, Pironkova only managed to grab a single break point that actually guided her to triumph in the first match set.
Zvonareva heads to a 30-love run that provided Pironkova a gleam of chances. However, it didn’t stay for longer. The encouraging thing is that Pironkova in spite of experiencing the match points still didn’t give up. Zvonareva on the other hand was continuously pushing the girl hard with her high quality aggressive game on the grass court and didn’t give her the any chances to return in the game.
During the third set of the game, Pironkova runs the Russian tennis sensation on top of one another, at last boring a backhand into the side that Russian could not access and thus got a lead 40-15 during her serve. Zvonareva, however soon faced another break point but the important thing is that Pironkova did manage to block Zvonareva pretty well at that stage of the game.
While Serving to grab a dominating lead, Zvonareva stumbled, forwarding backhands broad and long and experiencing two break points. Pironkova smashed the first one out of the two break points directing towards the net and nearly crashed to her knees in scepticism. Then, intentionally Zvonareva moves to the net and plugs away a swinging backhand volley to one side of the court, for a success.
The Russian tennis sensation, Zvonareva all through the match was seen grabbing most of the opportunities provided to her. During the majority of the match points, she drove the ball hard against her opponent on the grass court. In spite of the fact that the Bulgarian player did attempt to match up the Russian’s pace, however she fell just short of her in the end.
Pironkova knowing the importance of the big match did put up a good show of fight beyond any doubt. She smashed a total of three spontaneous errors during her second match set.
The final outcome of the match showed the Russian tennis ace Vera Zvonareva as the winner. However, the truth of the matter is that, Vera except the first match set did exhibit a better display of tennis as compared to her opponent, Pironkova. But an alarming thing is that the girl who looked well confident and won the first set couldn’t continue with her performance for the rest of the game. All through the first set, she outclassed Zvonareva with her excellent powerful strokes all around the grass court and finished off the first set with a match score of 2-1.
However, just after the first set, the story totally changed for Pironkova probably because of her over confidence or nervousness.
As far as the Russian girl Vera Zvonareva is concerned, she ended up the match on the most important occasion with a victory meaning by that the girl will face the top seeded Serena Williams in the final clash of this year’s grass court Grand Slam Tournament.
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