Venus Williams keeps impressing this week
at Tokyo and after her victories over Mona Barthel, Victoria Azarenka and
Simona Halep, the five times Wimbledon champion overcame Eugenie Bouchard 6 – 3
6 – 7 6 – 3.
Bouchard started in good style getting a 3 –
1 lead, but Venus fought back with powerful and deep groundstrokes that allowed
her to get 5 straight games closing the first set 6 – 3 after a long rally that
ended with a backhand down the line unforced error by Bouchard.
Williams was determined to reach her third
season semi-finals after Florianopolis and Charleston. The American got a 2 - 0
lead in the second set, but Gennie recovered and leveled the second set at two
games all. The servers dominate from that point and a tie break was needed to
decide this set. With 3 – 3 on tie break, Bouchard fired some solid and aggressive
groundstrokes and after a couple of Williams’ errors the young Canadian had a 6
– 3 lead and three set points. After a forehand unforced error from Williams
the Canada’s number one claimed the second set.
Despite
playing very poor in the tie break, Venus started the third set very strong
getting an early break in the third game and got a double break lead in the 7th
game for a 5 – 2 lead. The American failed when serving for the match, but in
the next game was able to close the match after a forehand error from Bouchard.
Williams celebrated this huge victory with a loud “Come on!”
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