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Wimbledon 2011 Day 2: Chakvetadze v Sharapova

This match got moved to Centre where it was getting decidedly nippy!







Lots of baseline slugging in the first two games, which went with serve. The early break went to Sharapova after Chakky slipped on the grass.





Eventually Anna got herself a hold, and began to move Sharapova around the court a bit more. However, she was also magnetically drawn to hitting the net a lot, so another break went Maria’s way.
Sharapova came out to serve for the first set and took it.





By now the wind was picking up quite a bit and was pretty swirly. Anna got broken in the first game, but broke Sharapova straight back thanks to a costly DF from Sharapova.
There was a lengthy discussion between Chakvetadze and the umpire when he announced a game and she wanted to challenge, and apparently wasn’t allowed to.
This may have been the rutning point, as Sharapova broke to take the lead.



Anna wasn’t really adding much power to her groundstokes by now, and every now and again would dart forward and be able to play a little more aggressively and take a point off Sharapova here and there but not able to string anything together consistently. Leaking too many errors, Sharapova was able to come out and take the match with a hold and a break.



Much to our relief as it was truly freezing by now!

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