Wimbledon - Third Round

Hi everyone,

Now we can find out who survived until the second week of Wimbledon!

Radwanska had an easy win over Britain's hope Heather Watson: 6-0, 6-2. Kvitova lost just one game to Lepchenko: 6-1, 6-0. Azarenka did it twice with 6-3 against Cepelova. The number one Sharapova is also through in two sets against Hsieh: 6-1, 6-4. She'll face Lisicki next after she got past Stephens in three sets: 7-6(5), 1-6, 6-2.

But if you really want to hear about a tough match, Serena defeated Zheng in three sets: (5)6-7, 6-2, 9-7. That's a close call! Zheng brought some excellent tennis to centre court while Serena's serve held her in the match. She was obviously very relieved as you can notice here:

Another great battle was fought between Ivanovic and Goerges. The German took the first set: 6-3 with her impressive forehand. The Serbian needed all she had to take the win in the next two sets: 3-6, 6-3, 6-4.

Kim Clijsters faced Zvonareva in the third round. Both women are plagued by injuries this year and it was quite interesting to see them battling it out against each other. There were some nice points in the first set which Clijsters won: 6-3. In the second set, the Russian experienced breathing problems that broke the rythm of the match. Clijsters had a break lead but handed it over. After a medical time-out, Zvonareva lost her serve again and called it quits at 4-3 for Clijsters. Kim in the fourth round against Kerber!

This will be a very difficult task for the Belgian, Kerber is playing remarkable for the past few months. She got in the fourth round by defeating McHale: 6-2, 6-3. I'm still hoping for a close match with some fabulous points between those two!

The other Belgian Wickmayer just fell short against Paszek: 6-2, (4)6-7, 5-7.

And history has been written in a third round Wimbledon match! Shvedova managed to grab a golden set against non other than Errani (finalist at Roland Garros, keep that in mind!). For those who don't know what a golden set is: winning a set without losing a single point. That means no winners of your opponent, a double fault or unforced error of your own. It sounds impossible and that's why this is the first time in history this has ever happened in the women's game! What's more impressive is that Shvedova is the one who almost did it before, winning 23 points consecutive (you need 24 for a golden set) before hitting a double fault. Shvedova went on to win the match: 6-0, 6-4.

Here you can check all the points squeezed into a clip of a minute:

To sum things up, here are the fourth round matches:

- Sharapova vs. Lisicki = I'm going for the number one but secretly I hope Lisicki can pull off another great upset like she did before at Wimbledon

- Clijsters vs. Kerber

- Radwanska vs. Giorgi = will the Italian give the number three some difficulty?

- Kirilenko vs. Peng

- Serena Williams vs. Shvedova = golden set recordholder against record holder of almost all other things (like prize money or most recent player to have held all four Grand Slam singles titles simultaneously)

- Kvitova vs. Schiavone

- Paszek vs. Vinci = I'm predicting Paszek can get to the quarterfinals!

- Ivanovic vs. Azarenka

Be sure to keep posted!