Goerges packs off Wozniacki
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May 6, 2011, Friday
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JULIA Goerges upset Caroline Wozniacki for the second straight tournament yesterday, ousting the top-ranked Dane 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 in the third round of the Madrid Open.
The 27th-ranked German broke Wozniacki in the eighth game of the deciding set to lead 5-3 before serving out the match.
Goerges rallied from 0-3 down to take the first set after breaking twice. But she lost that momentum as Wozniacki leveled the match with two breaks of her own in the second set.
"The second set she started to be more aggressive and I started to get tired, so I said to myself keep yourself together for the third set and try to fight for every point," said Goerges, who beat Wozniacki in the Porsche Grand Prix final in Stuttgart, Germany, on April 24.
While Goerges hit 38 unforced errors to Wozniacki's 21, she also managed 36 winners to her opponent's 11 on Manolo Santana court.
"I beat her twice and twice in two weeks so I'm pretty proud of myself," Goerges said after taking the two-hour plus match.
Goerges plays either fifth-seeded Sam Stosur or Anastasia Pavyluchenkova in the last eight.
On Wednesday, world No. 1 Rafael Nadal began his quest for a third claycourt title in a month with a 6-1, 6-3 drubbing of unseeded Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis.
Third seed Roger Federer had a much less comfortable time and saved a match point before finishing off unseeded Spaniard Feliciano Lopez 7-6 6-7 7-6.
Novak Djokovic, the world No. 2, maintained his unbeaten start to the year with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over unseeded South African Kevin Anderson while fourth-seeded Briton Andy Murray went through 6-4, 3-6 6-0 against Gilles Simon of France.
Nadal, who won back-to-back tournaments in Monte Carlo and Barcelona last month, did not face a break point on his serve and converted his first match point when he whipped a trademark forehand winner down the line.
Fifth-seeded Swede Robin Soderling, the last man to beat Nadal on clay in the fourth round at the French Open in 2009, advanced with a 6-3, 6-3 victory over Colombian Santiago Giraldo.
Czech Tomas Berdych, the seventh seed, saw off Spanish wildcard Marcel Granollers 6-4, 6-0 but eighth-seeded Austrian Juergen Melzer lost 7-6 6-3 to Spanish qualifier Daniel Gimeno-Traver.
In the women's edition, world No. 3 Vera Zvonareva lost 1-6, 4-6 to 16th-seeded Czech Petra Kvitova.
Maria Sharapova's recent resurgence suffered a setback when the former world No. 1, who is coming back from shoulder surgery, was knocked out by unseeded Slovakian Dominika Cibulkova 7-5, 6-4.
Sixth seed Li Na of China, who reached the final of this year's Australian Open, came through 6-1, 6-4 in her second-round tussle with unseeded Czech Iveta Benesova.
The 27th-ranked German broke Wozniacki in the eighth game of the deciding set to lead 5-3 before serving out the match.
Goerges rallied from 0-3 down to take the first set after breaking twice. But she lost that momentum as Wozniacki leveled the match with two breaks of her own in the second set.
"The second set she started to be more aggressive and I started to get tired, so I said to myself keep yourself together for the third set and try to fight for every point," said Goerges, who beat Wozniacki in the Porsche Grand Prix final in Stuttgart, Germany, on April 24.
While Goerges hit 38 unforced errors to Wozniacki's 21, she also managed 36 winners to her opponent's 11 on Manolo Santana court.
"I beat her twice and twice in two weeks so I'm pretty proud of myself," Goerges said after taking the two-hour plus match.
Goerges plays either fifth-seeded Sam Stosur or Anastasia Pavyluchenkova in the last eight.
On Wednesday, world No. 1 Rafael Nadal began his quest for a third claycourt title in a month with a 6-1, 6-3 drubbing of unseeded Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis.
Third seed Roger Federer had a much less comfortable time and saved a match point before finishing off unseeded Spaniard Feliciano Lopez 7-6 6-7 7-6.
Novak Djokovic, the world No. 2, maintained his unbeaten start to the year with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over unseeded South African Kevin Anderson while fourth-seeded Briton Andy Murray went through 6-4, 3-6 6-0 against Gilles Simon of France.
Nadal, who won back-to-back tournaments in Monte Carlo and Barcelona last month, did not face a break point on his serve and converted his first match point when he whipped a trademark forehand winner down the line.
Fifth-seeded Swede Robin Soderling, the last man to beat Nadal on clay in the fourth round at the French Open in 2009, advanced with a 6-3, 6-3 victory over Colombian Santiago Giraldo.
Czech Tomas Berdych, the seventh seed, saw off Spanish wildcard Marcel Granollers 6-4, 6-0 but eighth-seeded Austrian Juergen Melzer lost 7-6 6-3 to Spanish qualifier Daniel Gimeno-Traver.
In the women's edition, world No. 3 Vera Zvonareva lost 1-6, 4-6 to 16th-seeded Czech Petra Kvitova.
Maria Sharapova's recent resurgence suffered a setback when the former world No. 1, who is coming back from shoulder surgery, was knocked out by unseeded Slovakian Dominika Cibulkova 7-5, 6-4.
Sixth seed Li Na of China, who reached the final of this year's Australian Open, came through 6-1, 6-4 in her second-round tussle with unseeded Czech Iveta Benesova.
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