Second Round Main Draw, Deauville, France
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16y.o. Tzveti Pironkova lost today to world's #109 Marta Marrero of Spain.
She surely played one of her best matches in career, but had no luck in the final games in the match
However she'll move to #327-#328 in the rankings in two weeks.
Here are the stats of the match:
MARRERO -->
Aces: 0
Double Faults: 4
First service: 58%
Break pts won: 9/17
Total pts won: 119/228
PIRONKOVA -->
Aces: 0
Double Faults: 1
First service: 75%
Break pts won: 8/13
Total pts won: 109/228
Match duration: 3h 00min
Pironkova has commitments for 2 more tournaments this year, but most likely she'll play only the one!
The draw of TOPSHELF Open
(1)Roberta Vinci (ITA) v Kaia Kanepi (EST)
Annika Beck (GER) v Simona Halep (ROU)
Stefanie Voegele (SUI) v Q
(wc)Daniela Hantuchova (SVK) v (6)Romina Oprandi (SUI)
(3)Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP) v Johanna Larsson (SWE)
Sofia Arvidsson (SWE) v Ayumi Morita (JPN)
Q v Irina-Camelia Begu (ROU)
***Tsvetana Pironkova (BUL)*** v (8)Kristina Mladenovic (FRA)
(7)Urszula Radwanska (POL) v Olga Govortsova (BLR)
Magdalena Rybarikova (SVK) v (wc)Arantxa Rus (NED)
(wc)Michaella Krajicek (NED) v Silvia Soler-Espinosa (ESP)
Francesca Schiavone (ITA) v (4)Kirsten Flipkens (BEL)
(5)Mona Barthel (GER) v Q
Q v Lauren Davis (USA)
Kiki Bertens (NED) v Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP)
Lourdes Dominguez Lino (ESP) v (2)Dominika Cibulkova (SVK)
First off all, she's absolutely gorgeous and looks like a doll on the court.
Her first serve was working good and is what kept her in the match probably!
Begu hit everything to her FH and it broke fast resulting in short balls for Irina.
Fortunately for Tsvetana Begu was hitting many UE's so she won comfortably in the end.
Tsvetana was yelling at herself a lot when she made UE's, it was quite adorable :lol:
Agnieszka Radwańska vs. Yvonne Meusburger
Timea Babos vs. Mathilde Johannson
Heather Watson vs. Madison Keys
Monica Niculescu vs. Mona Barthel
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. ***Tsvetana Pironkova***
Barbora Zahlavova Strycova vs. Magdalena Rybarikova
Anna Tatishvili vs. Petra Martic
Karolina Pliskova vs. Nadia Petrova
Tsveta shows her Grass GOAT pedigree by taking out a seed in Anastasia in double quick time 6:0 6:1...it doesnt get more emphatic that that.the grass is greener when Tseta plays!
The draw has really opened up for her
I don't want to speak too soon, but I hope she can take advantage of this and reach R4 at least. SF is even possible if she focuses