Saturday, May 30, 2009

Top seed Safina cruises through


2009 French Open - Day Six


Top seed Dinara Safina recovered from a testing start to race to a straight-sets victory over Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the third round.

The world number one needed just 67 minutes to post a 6-2 6-0 victory on Court One, and will now play France's Aravane Rezai in round four.

Initially, Safina, who is yet to land a grand-slam title, was made to work much harder than in her opening two matches, against Anne Keothavong and Vitalia Diatchenko.

She got the key break of the first set in a marathon fourth game and grabbed another when Pavlyuchenkova sent a forehand wide to take it after 43 minutes.

Safina dabbed on the accelerator in the second set and lost just three points in the opening five games.

She was taken to deuce in what proved to be the final game, clinching victory on her fourth match point.

Safina has lost just four games all tournament.

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