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Video: Niculescu Wins a Point, Awkwardly, in Guangzhou
There are many ways to win tennis points. Hammering an ace is one of them. Launching a crosscourt forehand winner is another. Drop shots are good, as are backhands down the line that change the direction of a rally and catch an opponent off guard.
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Sometimes good, old-fashioned defense is great. Lobs work when an opponent has attacked the net, as do passing shots.
But
Monica Niculescu
takes a new approach entirely on this match point during her 6-3, 6-2 win over Rebecca Peterson in Guangzhou. After producing a bevy of squash forehands she lets the racquet fly (it slips out of her hands but it's more fun to assume the toss was part of the Romanian's grand tactical vision on this point) and stands there, helplessly. Remarkably, it works! Peterson nets the backhand and Niculescu slides through to the quarters where she’ll meet
Yanina Wickmayer
next.
In other action at the Guangzhou Open, top-seeded
Simona Halep
thumped Timea Babos, 6-4, 6-0, while third-seeded
Sara Errani
bounced Chinese qualifier Kai-Lin Zhang, 6-3, 6-3.
Fourth-seeded
Jelena Jankovic
(d. Schiavone), fifth-seeded
Svetlana Kuznetsova
(d. Urszula Radwanska) and eighth-seeded
SaiSai Zheng
(d. Kontaveit) also reached the quarters on a busy Wednesday in Guangzhou.
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