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Sunday, 18 April 2010 22:04

Players Say Goodbye to Charleston

Written by  Christina Ward
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In what became the quickest final in Family Circle Cup history, Sam Stosur defeated Vera Zvonareva, 6-0, 6-3, in 52 minutes.  Stosur only lost eight points on serve and made 32 winners in the match. It did not look like the Australian was playing in only the second Tour final of her career and Zvonareva in her 22nd.  “I guess they’re the days that everyone talks about, [that] you’re in the zone,” Stosur said about her red-hot play.  “It’s just a great feeling, and you wish that you could do that everyday, but it’s not that easy, so to be able to do it in a final is all that more pleasing.”
Give Me a Break
Zvonareva was serving at 0-6, 0-3, 15-30 when she hit her third double fault of the match.  In danger of losing ten consecutive games, the Russian let go of her frustrations by smashing her racquet three times.  However, that was not the end of it. 
When she took her broken racquet to her chair, she threw it on the ground and kicked it under her chair.  Releasing her anger must have helped Zvonareva because she won the next four points to hold serve and finally got on the board.  Zvonareva said, “[You’ve] got to try to change something up, try to maybe relax more, and enjoy the game; just maybe break a racquet, forget about what was happening for the past half an hour, and start all over again.”

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Zvonareva mid-racquet smash

Love for Doubles
Nadia Petrova and Liezel Huber were very appreciative of the crowd during their doubles matches this week.  “People do love doubles here. I’m glad they stay.  If it’s at the end of the day, they still stick around and watch the doubles,” Petrova said.  “And even today, we had a great crowd for the finals, and I think the Tour should do that more and more, putting the doubles finals before the singles finals.”

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Doubles Champions Liezel Huber (L) and Nadia Petrova

Huber and Petrova beat Vania King and Michaella Krajicek, 6-3, 6-4 in the doubles final Sunday.  King and Krajicek suffered their first loss as a doubles team after winning in Memphis earlier this year.  “Obviously, today was the toughest opponent, No. 1 and No. 9 in the world,” Krajicek said about the Champions.  “I think we played okay.  I think we could have done a bit more. But, on the other side, they played really well.”

Looking Ahead to the Rest of the Season
During her post-match interview, Vera Zvonareva was obviously disappointed that she did not win the title. “Any tournament I’m playing at, I want to win it, and if I don’t have a title there, I want to, of course, come back and win it,” Zvonareva said.  “But here, it’s [a] very special event to me. I’ve been coming here every year. And of course, I want to do better, and, hopefully, I can be here next year and try to take one more step forward.”

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Stosur and a serene Zvonareva

Stosur is cautiously optimistic about her expectations for the year. “Whenever you win a title, you want to kind of go into the rest of the season feeling like you can achieve more and keep working hard and try to hopefully win more titles, But because you win one doesn’t mean you’re just going to walk into finals all over the place.  You still have to do all the things you’ve been doing to get to this point.”

 

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