Honored coach of Russia Alexander Kalivod shared his impressions of the Russian’s victory Anna Blinkova on the third din of the world Elena Rybakina in the second round of the Australian Open.
On Thursday, Blinkova reached the third round of the Australian Open by defeating Rybakina with a score of 6:4, 4:6, 7:6 (22:20). The athletes spent 2 hours and 46 minutes on the field. This tiebreaker became the longest in the history of Grand Slam singles tournaments.
“I am in an incomprehensible state; we haven’t seen such tension in tennis for a long time, what was happening on the court. This one can probably be placed in second place after Andrey Chesnokov’s nine match points. The game was incredibly interesting.
Despite some novelty in Anna’s game due to the crooked shots, the match proved to be truly worthwhile. Both tennis players failed to maintain a specific strategy for the match. It all started with the fact that Blinkova was able to easily and naturally take a set at the third racket in the world with a score of 6:4, and this was already an intrigue and nervousness for Rybakina herself.
As for the decisive tie-break, it is quite difficult to resist. It seemed to me that the decisive moment came at 19:19, when several shots from Anya took place at a very decent speed. She took a risk and opted for a nail-biting ending, and what doesn’t Elena like the most? Rybakina doesn’t like to move,” Kalivoda said, as quoted by RT.
The Russian tennis player’s next opponent will be Italian Jasmine Paolini, seeded 26th at the Australian Open.
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