{"id":8844,"date":"2012-03-13T03:07:23","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T01:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/tennis-stosur-bundled-out-of-indian-wells-by-petrova\/"},"modified":"2012-03-13T03:07:23","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T01:07:23","slug":"tennis-stosur-bundled-out-of-indian-wells-by-petrova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/tennis-stosur-bundled-out-of-indian-wells-by-petrova\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis-Stosur bundled out of Indian Wells by Petrova"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Mark Lamport-Stokes<\/span><\/p>\n

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INDIAN WELLS, California, March 12<\/span> (Reuters) – U.S.
\nOpen champion Sam Stosur of Australia made a premature exit at
\nthe Indian Wells WTA tournament with a see-sawing 6-1 6-7 7-6
\nloss to Russian Nadia Petrova in the third round on Monday.<\/p>\n

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Sixth-seeded Stosur was broken when serving for the match at
\n6-5 in the third set and the Russian capitalised by holding her
\nserve and sealing a hard-fought victory 7-5 in the tiebreak.<\/p>\n

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The Australian had been swept aside by big-serving Petrova
\nin the opening set and then saved one match point in the second
\nset tiebreak before clawing her way back to level the match.<\/p>\n

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Petrova, beaten 7-6 6-7 7-5 by Stosur at last year’s U.S.
\nOpen in the tournament’s longest women’s match of the tie-break
\nera, squealed with delight after the Australian pushed a
\nforehand wide to end an encounter lasting nearly three hours.<\/p>\n

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“I am very excited to be back,” a beaming Petrova said in a
\ncourtside interview at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden. “This is
\nonly my third win of the year and you could see it when I was
\njust about to close the match. I was a bit tentative.<\/p>\n

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“My serve was working incredibly (well) until the end of the
\nsecond set,” added the Russian, who fired down 15 aces in the
\nmatch. “At the end, it was just spot on.”<\/p>\n

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Petrova, who raised both arms skywards to celebrate her
\nfifth successive appearance in the fourth round at Indian Wells,
\nwill next meet either fellow Russian Maria Kirilenko or Spaniard
\nLourdes Dominguez Lino.<\/p>\n

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In other matches on Monday, seventh-seeded Frenchwoman
\nMarion Bartoli swept aside South African Chanelle Scheepers 6-2
\n6-0 and Italy’s Roberta Vinci battled past Slovakian Dominika
\nCibulkova 6-7 6-0 6-4.
\n\u00a0 Continued…<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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By Mark Lamport-Stokes INDIAN WELLS, California, March 12 (Reuters) – U.S. Open champion Sam Stosur of Australia made a premature exit at the Indian Wells WTA tournament with a see-sawing 6-1 6-7 7-6 loss to Russian Nadia Petrova in the third round on Monday. Sixth-seeded Stosur was broken when serving for the match at 6-5 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-8844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}