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Kvitova shocks Kerber in Wuhan
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ANGELIQUE Kerber lost her second match as the No. 1-ranked player, losing to Petra Kvitova in the third round of the Wuhan Open yesterday.
Kvitova saved 17 of 22 break points on her way to the 7-6 (10), 5-7, 6-4 win over Kerber, who committed eight double faults in Wuhan, central Hubei Province.
Kerber replaced Serena Williams atop the rankings with her run to the US Open title, and took time off before coming to China to start her Asian swing in Wuhan, where she had a bye in the first round.
Kvitova last beat Kerber in the 2014 Fed Cup final, and had since lost to the German three times, including in the US Open fourth round.
In the quarterfinals, Kvitova will face Johanna Konta of Britain, who beat seventh-seeded Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain 7-5, 7-6 (6). Konta saved three set points in a marathon ninth game, and recovered from 6-3 down in the tiebreak.
“I was fully prepared to obviously play a third (set) if need be. I really just tried to be brave and just play the way I wanted to play throughout the whole match, and those points as well,” Konta told reporters after the win.
Svetlana Kuznetsova ousted defending champion Venus Williams 6-2, 6-2.
Kuznetsova dominated Williams from the outset, breaking the American five times. The Russian improved to 5-4 against Williams.
Williams struggled with her serve in the gusty conditions and had seven double faults.
Simona Halep of Romania also advanced, easing past Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan 6-3, 6-3.
Halep, showing no sign of the hamstring injury that ruled her out of Tokyo last week, will face Madison Keys in the quarters. The American beat Russian qualifier Daria Kasatkina 6-1, 4-6, 6-4.
In Shenzhen, southern Guangdong Province, Alexander Zverev withdrew from the Shenzhen Open yesterday, citing fatigue three days after winning his first ATP title in St Petersburg.
Zverev, at 19 the youngest winner on tour in more than eight years, arrived late from Russia, and the German teen was replaced in the draw by lucky loser Thomas Fabbiano, who went on to beat Japan’s Yoshihito Nishioka 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 to complete the first round.
Zverev’s older brother, Mischa, defeated another Italian, Fabio Fognini, 7-6 (3), 6-4.
Mischa, a qualifier, served 10 aces and won 79 percent of his service points to book his first quarterfinal since last year in Valencia, where he also beat Fognini.
Richard Gasquet brushed aside Australian qualifier Andrew Whittington 6-1, 6-0 in the second round, and will play Mischa Zverev in the quarterfinals.
Second seed David Goffin of Belgium suffered a setback in his bid to qualify for the ATP Finals, losing to Malek Jaziri of Tunisia 6-7 (2), 6-3, 2-6. Jaziri made his second quarterfinals in as many weeks.
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