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 | Venus get a meeting with Sharapova, Serbian clash for Ana Ivanovic16-01-2013 |
Venus Williams overcame Alize Cornet with 6:3, 6:3, and continued in the third round of the Australian Open. Seeded 25th American will meet Maria Sharapova in the next phase. Cornet made double fault in the end of the first set, then failed to keep her breakthrough in the second and gave the game for an hour and 17 minutes.
In the third round will have and Serbian clash - between Ana Ivanovic and Jelena Jankovic. Both gave one set of their opponents today and Jankovic save herself with tiebreak in the second against the Portuguese Keller. Ana Ivanovic started hard against Chen from Taiwan, the two have played 12 games in the first set, which the Serb won. Zhang broke her opponent in the second, but Ivanovic is back on track for the decisive third, and won after 6:4.
All results of the day for women:
Jelena Jankovic (Serbia) - Maria Joao Keller (Portugal) 2:6 7:6 6:2
Chen Jie (China) - Samantha Stosur (Australia) 6:4 1:6 7:5
Sorana baptized (Romania) - Christina Plishkova (Czech Republic) 1:6 6:3 6:2
Kirsten Flipkens (Belgium) - Klara Zakopalova (Czech Republic) 6:1 6:0
Angelique Kerber (Germany) - Lyutsiya Gradetska (Czech Republic) 6:3 6:1
Valeria Savinik (Russia) - Dominika Cibulkova (Slovakia) 7:6 6:4
Julia Georges (Germany) - Romina Oprandi (Switzerland) 6:3 6:2
On Li (China) - Olga Govortsova (Belarus) 6:2 7:5
Madison Kizh (SSHA) - Tamira Peshek (Austria) 6:2 6:1
Marion Bartoli (France) - Vesna Dolonts (RUS) 7:5 6:0
Ekaterina Makarova (RUS)) - Stephanie Forets (France) 6:3 6:3
Agnieszka Radwanska (Poland) - Irina- Camelia Begun (Romania) 6:3 6:3
Heather Watson (UK) - Ksenia Pervak (Kazakhstan) 4:6 7:6 6:2
Ana Ivanovic (Serbia) - Zhang Yun-Zhang (Taiwan) 7:5 1:6 6:4
Maria Sharapova (RUS)) - Misaki Doi (Japan) 6:0 6:0
Venus Williams (USA) - Alize Cornet with (France) 6:3 6:3