Maria Sharapova spent more than two hours on dvuhsetovuyu victory over a Swiss Belinda Bencic in the fourth round of the Australian Open. In the next round of Russian woman will face top-ranked Serena Williams, who, in turn, easily defeated Margarita Gasparyan.
Women
Maria Sharapova (Russia, 5) – Belinda Bencic, Switzerland (12) – 7: 5, 7: 5
On the way to the quarter-finals Maria Sharapova had to go first seeded opponent – Swiss Belinda Bencic. Her name is little known even fans, but it has already done a great deal to be called a rising star of tennis. Sportswoman with Slovak roots only 18, and she has earned the 12th seeded at the Australian Open.
In his years had time to do the Belinda Bencic what Sharapova fails for 12 years – he has beaten Serena Williams. And once again she managed to overcome the formidable American, why not challenge the one that she lost 18 times.
Sharapova immediately began to interfere with excellent traction with periodic errors on it. Sometimes Russian woman managed to give a whole series of aces, double faults but it automatically leads to breaks Belinda Bencic. However, Russian has controlled and the situation instantly and the score. When it is time to decide the fate of the first set in the 12th game, Belinda Bencic began to forget about what the size should be court, and gave her a joke.
In the same vein continued with the second batch – Maria mercilessly bleed served, but to make a “quarter-error” in the third game it was not difficult. Sharapova, all offset by the game on the back line and not allowed to think about opponentke break. That, in turn, have the Russians spied some tricks on the pitch and forced it is sometimes err on the reception.
Again, with the score 6: 5 in favor of Belinda Bencic Sharapova won the right to put the ball in the court. But after a couple of good-quality drawings Swiss made a double fault, and soon was led to the shortening of the opponent, giving her match points. Maria brilliantly took the ball to the line, and although at first thought the referee that he was out, this point is still credited Russian woman.
Serena Williams (US 1) – Margarita Gasparyan (Russia) – 6: 2, 6: 1
In the quarterfinals, Sharapova will meet with his arch-rival Serena Williams. And though she played on the court of Rod Laver second run after Russians, strength for the next round she will be more – the American hardly tense, playing Margarita Gasparyan.
has started, however, the match was quite unexpected – 58th racket of the world was able to take the supply from the current champion Australian Open. But later the game was held under the dictation Williams Jr., and apart from another game of it did not give the opponent in the first game. In the second Serena it was even meaner and conceded just one draw.
A total of reaching the quarterfinals of the American spent 55 minutes, while Sharapova match lasted more than two hours. Meeting the first and fifth racket of the tournament will be held on Tuesday and will be 21 minutes in the history of confrontation.
Men
Novak Djokovic (Serbia, 1) – Gilles Simon (France, 14) – 6: 3, 6: 7, 6: 4, 4: 6, 6: 3
The other incumbent winner, Novak Djokovic, also continues to rise on the grid, but it does not look as convincing as that of Williams. Serbs had to spend more than four hours to pass the 14th-seeded Gilles Simon.
Winning Nole went quite paradoxical. He allowed the five-set match exactly 100 unforced errors!
That would be enough to ensure that their own hands to give an opponent 25 games, and it’s even more than four sets. But because in tennis you can play as much as necessary, just to then immediately corrected, neither of which the defeat by the French it was not.
The hardest thing had to Djokovic in the second set. At one point, he completely shut down the realization of break points and a tiebreaker he lost for the first time in seven cases where a shorter game was needed. Later Serb corrected, but Simon caught and fourth party. The fifth power remained with the more experienced and award-winning tennis player, and Nole took another step to the sixth victory in Australia. In the quarterfinals, he will be joined Kei Nishikori.
Other matches
Kei Nishikori (Japan, 7) – Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (France, 9) – 6: 4, 6: 2, 6: 4
Tomas Berdych (Czech Republic, 6) – Roberto Bautista-agouti (Spain, 24) – 4: 6, 6: 4, 6: 3, 1: 6, 6: 3
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