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 | Last year's finalist dropped out of Roland Garros27-05-2011 |
Last year's finalist Samantha Stosur of Australia fell in the third round of France's repudiation Championship Tennis. Seeded eighth Stosur lost 4:6, 6:1, 3:6 after two hours of play. Dulko, who removed the best Bulgarian tennis player Tsvetana Pironkova in her previous match, energetic start and led by 4:0. Stosur reduced to 4:5, but 26-year arzhentinka unable to close the set in its own submission. The second part, 27-year-old Australian dominated and gave the only game of her opponent to even the score. In the decisive third set, Stosur led to the breakthrough with 2:1, but then lost four straight games, which proved fatal. So Dulko, which placed 25 winning blow came to the fourth round at Roland Garros for the second time in his career after 2006. The next opponent of arzhentinkata will be placed under number 11 Marion Bartoli (France). Bartoli deal with Germany's Julia Gyorges with 3:6, 6:2, 6:4, after little more than two hours of play. Gyorges started well and led to 3:0, which was sufficient for success in the first set. The second part went equivalent to 2:2, then Bartoli took four straight games to even the score. The third crucial set Frenchwoman also won five consecutive games to lead by 5:1. Gyorges reduced to 4:5, but no more forces. The German made 48 winning blow, but also 30 unforced errors. Former No. 1 and last year polufinalistka Jelena Jankovic of Serbia qualified for the fourth round without difficulty. Seeded Jankovic crashed 10 Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) with 6:2, 6:2 for 83 minutes. The next opponent for Jankovic will be foritavashtata champion and No. 5-seeded Francesca Skiavone from Italy. 2009 champion Svetlana Kuznetsova (Russia) also continued in the fourth round. Seeded 13 Kuznetsova needed only 49 minutes to break the resistance of the Canadian Rebecca Marino 6:0, 6:4. Kuznetsova expected winner of the match between world No 1 Caroline Voznyatski (Denmark) and Daniela Hantuchova (Slovakia) for a place in the quarterfinals.