Tennis 22/09

[Anastazija]

Rezai – Mirza; (1.917) Pinnacle ---> 3/10

It's never easy to play against local players especialy if they are supported by 5.000 fans as Mirza is. But support from stands won't help her too much if she won't improve her game a little bit. She will have to play on much better way as she did against Kloesel especially in first set which was full of errors and poor serving from both side. Rezai will be tougher opponent and i believe this talented french teenager can make a pleasant upset today. She has big serve and is hitting ball pretty hard. She already proved her quality on US Open this year, where she suprised me not just with result but also with a style of playing. I am pretty sure Mirza won't have easy match today.

Here is one interesting report from India's newspaper:

On a wet Thursday evening in Kolkata, it rained errors at the Netaji Indoor Stadium, with both Sania Mirza and Sandra Kloesel displaying almost painfully similar games in their second round encounter. Both their serves often touched levels of absurdity, as they repeatedly treated their service games like slippery objects (seven breaks in the first set, and five in the second, said it all).

Both their groundstrokes were schizophrenic, to say the least, with a series of atrocious errors interspersed with an incredible winner or two. With the margin of their errors leaving very little to the linesmen's purview, what separated the two was Sania's solidity in the second set, where she made fewer errors than her extremely erratic opponent, and registered a 7-5, 6-3 at the Sunfeast Open WTA tennis tournament.