Monday, May 30, 2011

Li Na Take a history in French Open 2011

Li Na made ​​it through the party hard against Petra Kvitova. in order to qualify for the quarterfinals of the French Open.  The victory is once again recorded a sixth seed in the history books.

Played a fourth round match on Court Philippe Chatier on Monday ( 5/30/2011 ), Li was forced to play a rubber set to beat Kvitova.  After submission of the initial sets, Li comeback and win the next two sets to win 2-6, 6-1, 6-3.

Reuters quoted, this success made ​​the first Chinese tennis player Li as successful through the last eight Rolland Garros.Li, there have been three successful Asian player to reach this stage after the Open era.  They are the two Japan Kazuko Sawamatsu and tennis player Kimiko Date - Krumm and Yaroslava Shvedova beat Kazakhstan.

Services Li, Kvitova defeated twice in the opening set but it turns servicing Czech tennis player Li broken twice in the second set.  Li then won the next five games to equalize.

Li lost serve in the second game in the decider when he did a double - fault.  However Kvitova failed to maintain its superiority after he lost in six games last.

Furthermore, Li will challenge the winner of the fourth round of the other party between fourth-seeded Victoria Azarenka of counter Ekaterina Makarova to fight a ticket to the semifinals.

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