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 | Stosur difficult to cope with Kirilenko, Zvonareva will play with5-09-2011 |
Samantha Stosur 1/4-finalite qualify for a U.S. Open after a battle with Russia's trisetova Maria Kirilenko. Placed under № 9 Australian won the first set easily 6-2 but the second burst and real drama came to the tiebreak which Kirilenko took a 17-15. Only this part last 84 minutes, and in the third set Stosur won 6-3 and reached the final success after two hours and a half game. On the WTA announced that the tie-break question is the longest in the history of the tournament "Grand Slam". In the next round Stosur will argue with another Russian - the second placed Vera Zvonareva, who beat Sabine Lisitski 6-2, 6-3 in just over an hour. Stosur plays very well against Zvonareva and beat her in the last 7 meetings between them, but the Australian knows that its forthcoming meeting last work. "I still play tournament" Grand Slam "is a big moment for both," said the Australian. In the third round and it took 3 hours and 16 minutes to eliminate Nadia Petrova 7-6 (7 / 5), 6-7 (5 / 7), 7-5 in the longest game in women's history U of S Open.