Kerber crashes out in China Open third round
Angelique Kerber after losing a indicate to Elina Svitolina in Beijing on Oct 6, 2016. PHOTO: AFP
BEIJING: Ukrainian Elina Svitolina scored her second win this year over a universe series one, ousting Angelique Kerber in a turn of 16 in Beijing on Thursday.
Nineteenth-ranked Svitolina took only dual sets to kick newly crowned series one Kerber — who ascended to a tip mark during a US Open, a same week she also claimed her second Grand Slam climax — with a 6-3, 7-5 win.
The 22-year-old left Serena Williams in tears in Rio in August, denying a 22-time Grand Slam champion a fifth Olympic bullion award with a true set win.
“When they announce (the names during a start of a march) we have this uncanny feeling since we realize you’re personification opposite universe series one”, pronounced Svitolina after a match. “I try not to consider about it. If we consider too much, we remove my way.”
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Kerber, who had her right thigh taped during a match, had a mangle lead in any set though seemed glued to a baseline and was incompetent to take control.
“I know that we have to pierce unequivocally good when we play my game, and we couldn’t play my diversion like we play,” Kerber told reporters.
The German still skeleton to play in Hong Kong subsequent week as she chases points to finish a year during series one — though her right leg might change her plans.
“Still it’s in my report to play Hong Kong,” she said. “It’s right after a match, so we don’t know accurately with my leg or whatever. But it’s still in my schedule.”
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Briton Johanna Konta cumulative her initial ever win over US Open finalist Karolina Pliskova in a 3 set tie break, 6-1, 3-6, 7-6 (7/2).
With a feat over a sixth-ranked Czech, Konta — now during series 14 — moves closer to violation into a tip 10 for a initial time.
The win also moves a 25-year-old into tenth position in a competition for a eight-player WTA Final in Singapore, definition she could play if one of a 8 forsaken out.
But if associate quarter-finalist Petra Kvitova, now 12th in a race, continues her stellar Asian run, a Briton could be nudged out.
Agnieszka Radwanska cumulative her second uninterrupted win over former series one Caroline Wozniacki to strech a China Open quarter-finals.
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The span have met 3 times in as many weeks, with Wozniacki entrance out on tip in a initial confront in Tokyo.
Wozniacki went on to bag a pretension in a Japanese capital, though Radwanska finished her seven-match winning strain during final week’s Wuhan Open by ousting a Dane in a turn of 16.
Third-ranked Radwanska requisitioned her Beijing quarter-final mark on a third compare indicate with an considerable run to a net to lapse a dump shot from a Dane. Wozniacki lobbed a return, though a Pole done it to that one to take a compare 6-3, 6-1.
“I knew nothing’s going to come for free. we was unequivocally perplexing to be assertive from a initial indicate and also from a return,” Radwanska told reporters.
“We know any other for 17 years. Practising together as good roughly any tournament, personification some matches opposite any other. we consider we know about any other everything,” she added.
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