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Blinkova finished with her fifth seed from ninth match point! Sensational return of the Russian woman in “RG”

Date: March 29, 2024 Time: 13:11:38

Russian tennis player Anna Blinkova is clearly in shape on clay. She therefore, she did not enter the second round match against Caroline Garcia among the obvious losers: how much is the recent final against Elina Svitolina on the clay of Strasbourg worth! In addition, the courts of Paris are not new to her: in Cannes, she trains at the Elite Tennis center with her sisters Andreevs and Varvara Gracheva, she knows the language and culture very well.

From the very beginning, Anna began to actively push from serve: she added two aces to the first for 182 km / h, and also tried to reach the net, and with success: she immediately scared her opponent and showed her intentions. Surprisingly, at the beginning of the match there were no long rallies, familiar to clay: the girls drew points from the fifth or sixth shot. The Frenchwoman successfully struck from the right, often due to a tight reception from the havcourt below the back, she took the initiative and, when she received blows to take off, she also scored points.

Then another strike gave Garcia the first break point of the set at 1-1. During the match, he will use this chip often: on the second serve, he will go deep down the court and attack with a high ball, which will reduce Blinkova’s response time. The main thing that gives such a technique is the initiative in the draw. And Garcia used it to perfection: he had Blinkova make mistakes to the left during an aggravation, while she herself barely landed a punch when she backhanded. A pinpoint reception allowed Garcia to rack up as many as four break points and complete one of them his style, from Anna’s reception and error into the net, 2-1.

The game was followed by Garcia’s dictation: she played very variably and sharply, sometimes attacking from mid-flight and below the back, which caused Anna difficulties. Then the girls confirmed her proposals. Karo started the sixth game less actively: Anna has already turned on the technique and closed the big project with two shots – a matter of technique. Blinkova took the second ball after a strange run from the Frenchwoman down the right, as she opened up the left side of the pitch completely – Blinkova had already spiked into an empty corner. But two good first ones and an abbreviated one, thrown in time, worked. Caroline closed the game at 0:30 after Anna’s mistake and took the lead – 3-1.

Sometimes the wind also came into play: in the seventh game, for example, the balls on Garcia’s side flew hard, sometimes not even reaching the net. But this did not stop Caroline from successfully converting the first on her serve: the balls created pleasant conditions for attacking on the second ball, Karo kept the draw under control and the score in the set – 5: 4, and then closed the set. in his first ace in the match-6: 4 in 42 minutes.

Garcia was better in all aspects, however, he was wrong more often: 12 against 8. The highest 88% of the balls won in the first, 56% – in the second with 12 winners. The numbers on break points are also indicative: Blinkova had 0, when Carolyn had an attempt at four.

Anna Blinkova

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Garcia also started the second set with pressure: he again used a deep reception until the very end. But there were also rash actions: an unsuspecting run into the net, in which Blinkova circled her opponent along the line. Two excellent firsts followed, and now Karoli has 30:40. A powerful and very twisty reverse forehand, and then a shorter one gave Karo an early break.

The situation repeated the scenario of the first set, only with the opposite effect: from the third break point, Anna equalized the score in the game – 1:1. And then the game began to take shape already in favor of the Russians. There were exits to the net, but a couple of shots as cool as a backhand circling the line from Karo and a double from Anna seem to have brought the French back into the game. It was possible to implement the gameball after an active game on the net and a first accuracy.

By the fourth game, it became apparent that Garcia’s tennis was regressing: a missed double backhand down the line, a missed forehand during the exchange, and no trace of the old French confidence. Anna made the second break in the set and moved into the lead.

Mistakes haunted Karo at the reception: another collapse to the outside, when in the first set those errors were not allowed. Anna, on the other hand, acted ahead of the curve: she played from a half-flight and fell under the back. So the Russian woman confirmed the break: the score was 4:1. Carolina completely collapsed at the end of the game: she peppered a double fault with failed actions on defense. The scoreline became quite critical: Blinkova took the fifth game in a row. Anna was also close to the hidden shuttlecock, as the ball from the net slid down the wire and landed on the Russian woman’s side. And then García converted the sixth break point in the game, which is symbolic, on the reception, and wet the score: 3:5

But 6:3 – and the obvious superiority of the Russians: 59% of successes with the first ball against 22% – of Carolina, 9 worth against 22 of the opponent. Despite the advantage of active balls: 16/8 for the French.

In the third set, the fight was even, and both were able to unbalance themselves after García’s unpleasant dispute with the referee: the French and the Empire showed two different ball prints on the line at a very important moment of the match – at 30: 40 on Blinkova’s serve. Give that ball to the French referee, and the initial break for her. But the girl on the tower correctly saw the mark, which was confirmed by the hawk’s eye. The controversy apparently shifted Karo’s focus slightly, and she swam: she gave up play on serve, and Blinkova didn’t let her level the score.

The end of the match turned out to be epic: Blinkova allowed the Frenchwoman to level the score at 5:4 and two match points, and then for another 20 minutes she was unable to close the match even at 6:5. But from the ninth match point, Blinkov and RG say goodbye to the fifth seed and favorite of the French public – 4:6, 6:3, 7:5. Next, Blinkova will once again play Elina Svitolina, the one who didn’t let Anna take the clay title before TBSH!

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Puck Henry
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