The match between Venus Williams and Radwanska turned out to be a bit of an anticlimax. The Pole broke immediately in the opening game and Venus just couldn't recover from that point on. She had a breakpoint at 1-3 but due to her many unforced errors, she never really could grid her teeth in the first set: 2-6. In no time Radwanska led 4-0 in the second set, her only tactic keeping the ball in the court to wait for the Williams-fault. The number three did win some amazing points when it seemed she had no chance at all. It was at 5-2 the Pole began having nerves and handed over the break to Venus. She countered right away, winning the match: 6-2, 6-3. Exit second Williams, is this the end of an era?
To sum things up for the other seeded players: Stosur, Cibulkova and Kuznetsova are all through without many difficulty on the first day of the second round. Ivanovic won 6-2, 6-2 against Peer and Stephens won the American duel against Mattek-Sans: 6-1, 6-1. We get to see Azarenka's smiling face again, she won also in a solid: 6-1, 6-1.
Na Li, Goerges, Kerber and Kanepi joined them to the third round a day later. Schiavone had some trouble against Pironkova and had to fight back from a set down: 2-6, 6-3, 6-1. Not so much problems for Kvitova, who outplayed the younger Radwanska: 6-1, 6-3.
Also Kirilenko is out and Jankovic lost to Lepchenko: (4)6-7, 6-4, 4-6. And for all the new-found fans of Razzano, she lost to the Dutch Rus: 3-6, (3)6-7.
But cheer up, there are some wonderful matches coming up in the third round! Faith definitely brought us these: Kanepi vs. Wozniacki, Petrova vs. Stosur, the older Radwanska sister against Kuznetsova and Kerber vs. Pennetta.
Stay posted!
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