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 | Girl Serena Williams dropped in Eastbourne14-06-2011 |
Tsvetana Pironkova dropped out in first round of the Eastbourne tennis tournament with prize money 618,000 dollars. The best Bulgarian tennis player dropped to beat Serena Williams, who returned to the court opposite from Plovdiv.
The smaller of the Williams sisters had not played tennis for about a year, having first had surgery on the sole of his right foot and then got sick of pulmonary embolism. The meeting, which the American won 1-6, 6-3, 6-4, started well for Pironkova and she made two quick break for 4-0.
Williams, who was champion last year at Wimbledon, still managed to take one game before the Bulgarian to close the set at 6-1 only for 28 minutes. Williams, who received a wild card for the tournament in Eastbourne, seriously improve your game and led 3-0 in the second set and then tied 3-6 in the part. The third set was again a break by Williams, who then led 2-0. Polufinalistkata of the British Open still managed Pironkova broke back and tied on 2-2.
Serena was playing better and better, led by 5-3, then won the set and match after 6-4, for two hours and five minutes. This was the second match between the two female players, as in 2007 Pironkova also won the first set but then lost the match on clay in Paris. Four years ago, in the first round at Roland Garros, Serena Williams overcame Bulgarian with a 5-7, 6-1, 6-1. Thus, a new American record victory over from Plovdiv, this time on grass. Former world number one will play the next round to Vera Zvonareva and Heather Watson.