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Skiavone and Kuznetsova broke the record for longest game in women 

Skiavone and Kuznetsova broke the record for longest game in women

23-01-2011

Champion at Roland Garros Francesca Skiavone qualified for the first time in his career to the quarterfinals of the Australian Open tennis.

Seeded sixth Skiavone beat 23 th-seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova (Russia) m marathon match with 6:4, 1:6, 16:14 to 4:44, a new record for the duration of the meeting of the Grand Slam .

Only the third set lasted 3 hours. It Kuznetsova squandered advance of 4:2 games, then missed six machbola, including advance of 40:0 and 8:7 in the service of Italian.

30-year Skiavone served for victory at 10:9 and 11:10, but did not even get to machbol. She still managed in his third chance in the 30 th game with a perfect volley of the network.

So Italians expected vodachkata-ranked Caroline Voznyatski from Denmark for a place in the semifinals.





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