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Cetkovska imala perfektnu realizaciju na break-loptama

Cetkovska je imala nezgodnu protivnicu u Czink. Mađarica je na kraju rezultatski uvjerljivo izgubila, ali dijelilo ih je samo sedam poena. Ključ uvjerljivog poraza ležao je u realizaciji break-lopti, a taj posao je Čehinja odradila bez greške. Spasila je sve četiri ponuđene break-lopte i iskoristila sve tri izborene. A što se tiče serviranja, Czink je imala bolji postotak iza prvog i drugog servisa. Još jedan primjer koliko statistika može zavarati.

- Bio je to jako težak meč. Ona je odlična igračica koja se vraća nakon ozlijede, te je imala dva meča kvalifikacija iza sebe. Sretna sam pobjedom jer su prvi mečevi uvijek najteži, posebno s teškim uvjetima koji vladaju ovdje - komentirala je zadovoljna Čehinja koja se u zdanje vrijeme nalazi u Top 30.

Bacsinszky je stigla u Fes nakon Fed Cupa koji joj je emotivno puno značio. Uspjela je dobiti meč za svoju reprezentaciju na dan kad je prije točno godinu dana imala ozljedu koja ju je dugo zadržala izvan terena. Očito se nije stigla dobro prilagoditi na nove uvjete i Rodionova je uvjerljivo dobila prvi set. Švicarka je u toj dionici osvojila samo dva poena od 11 ubačenih prvih servisa i zbog toga ne čudi što je izgubila četiri servisa. U drugom setu je popravila igru, te povela s 4:0, no vidjelo se da Rodionova ima problema sa nekom ozljedom jer nije mogla normalno udariti bekend. Na kraju je predala zbog ozljede lijevog zapešća.

Cetkovska i Bacsinszky su igrale ovdje prije pet godina i dobila je Čehinja u dva seta, a sad je razlika među njima još veća.

Looking and Gibbs's form, it's clear she is in better form than Kovinic. After Wimbledon, Nicole went back home and got her momentum at the ITF tournaments. She got two finals in a row, took 1 title, passed the Cincinnati qualifications and reached the third round of US Open two weeks later. True, she was eliminated in qualifications in New Haven and last week in Hong Kong but that doesn't erase her string of excellent results on hard court in the past two months. She passed the qualifications here in Seoul and then beat the seed Watson as the outsider. She will reach Top 100 next week and that's no coincidence. Gibbs has been laying well lately while the Montenegrin has lost her form, particularly upon arrival to hard court where Gibbs has shown the most. Kovnić was eliminated in the first round of Istanbul, Baku, Tashkent and the first round of US Open qualifications. She was the favorite in 3 out of 4 matches, and the absolute favorite in 2, so it's no point saying who's in better form. She did pass the qualifications but she was a bit lucky in the third set of the first round. Gibbs has shown much more and she should win today. I'll go with a smaller stake as I don't like going for handicaps in women's tennis as they are prone to losing a set by 6-0. I will take this small handicap, but you can also use the American as a solid combo material. The odds @1.50-1.55 are pretty good and I think they're worth a moderate stake in a combo.