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 | Clijsters side Cornet birthday girl in Melbourne22-01-2011 |
Placed under № 3 Kim Clijsters secure a place in the fourth round of Australian Open after defeating Alice Cornet 7-6 / 7-3 / 6-3.
Belgian won its first two meetings in Melbourne with ease, but against Cornet started with a break in the first game. Frenchwoman, however, on the eve of his 21 birthday and did not surrender and bring things to a tiebreak after saving setbol at 5-4 to Clijsters. Experimental tennis player from Belgium took the tiebreaker by 7-3 and closed the set after 54 minutes of play. At the beginning of the second set rivals exchanged in a breakthrough, but Clijsters made a second and give more chances Cornet to reach for the seventh time 1/8-finalite in Melbourne. Next opponent of the Belgian will be Russian Ekaterina Makarova, which side in a dramatic trisetov match her compatriot Nadia Petrova.