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McHale Upsets Kuznetsova Round One Of New Haven
By Lauren Lynch Photo Credit: Andy Kentla
(August 22, 2011) World No. 66 and climbing Christina McHale upset a player-six-times-her senior and eighth seed Svetlana Kuznetsova 7-5, 6-3 in an hour and a half in New Haven, Connecticut.
In her career, the former no. 1 Russian had won 13 titles and $15,823,512 in prize money while the young American has no titles and only $390,818 but she has the United State's hopes in her.
Showing mental maturity last week against Wozniacki, she said, "Yeah, I mean, I just tried not to, yeah, like let the moment get to me. So, yeah, I just tried to focus on how I was going to play the point, not on the outcome. Thankfully it worked. "
McHale pushed for 10 breaks on the World No. 16's serve and converted seven. She kept an even game wining 34 of 62 total service points and 31 of 61 of total return points.
Fourth seed Marion Bartoli took a first round win off of Anastasia Rodionova 6-1, 6-4 as the top seed to win.
Bartoli played an erractic service game of four aces and five double faults. She almost played 50/50 on her first and second serve. She won 22 of 27 first serves adn 16 of 28 seconds.
The top woman for France threatened her Austrian opponent's serve 12 times but only converted four times.
The other two seeds soon followed. Fifth seed Agnieszka Radwanska beat Ekaterina Makarova in exactly an hour with a 6-1, 6-2.
Eighth seed Anastasia Pavlyuchekova came back from a first set loss to defeat compatriot Vera Dushevina 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 while both were plagued with double faults.
Pavyuchenkova fought off 10 attempts to break her serve and on gave up five while executing six converts of 14 attempts. In the game there was 199 total points to be won, but the victor took 106.
Underdogs took more wins today. Lucky loser Carla Suarez Navarro, qualifier Petra Cetkovska, and Roberta Vinci won. Polona Hercog upset last week's upsetter Nadia Petrova 7-5, 7-5 to move on to the second round.
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