Kuznetsova Falls Short Of Semi Final

Svetlana Kuznetsova couldn’t make it to the semi final round of the ongoing French Open. She lost to Simona Halep of Romania in the straight sets in the round of 8 yesterday. Halep won the match by 6-2, 6-2.

It was anticipated to be a very exciting and close encounter as both the players were in great form, but, at the end, it turned out to be one of those matches in which one player crushes the other. The match got over in just about an hour with Kuznetsova winning just 4 games in the whole match.

Kuznetsova had actually come into the match with an injury which kept getting worsened as the match progressed and that was one of the main reasons why she got demolished by her opponent.

The Russian player, however, should be praised for her desire to fight and win. A lot of players would have left the match in the middle with so much pain, but, Kuznetsova didn’t do that. She showed character and battled till the very last moment.

On the other hand, for Halep, not a single thing went wrong during the match and the happiness on her face to have won in the straight sets was clearly visible.

The Romanian said, “I played really well. Winning in two sets against somebody like Svetlana who is a fantastic player is very satisfactory.”

This is the first time that Halep has reached the round of 4 in the singles competition of a Grand Slam. Before this, her best performance had come in the Australian Open of this year. She had managed to enter the quarter final round in that tournament.

The 22 years old would want to keep her rhythm going and lift her first Slam trophy in 4 days’ time.

MIAMI HAPPY TO HAVE TOP PLAYERS

The organizers of Miami Masters Tennis tournament are very happy that two of the greatest entertainers in the game i.e. Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal are going to take part in the event this year.

Both of them were absent last year and the popularity of the tournament had decreased immensely because of that. Only about 30,000 people had turned up which was about 5 percent less than the no. of spectators that had gathered to watch the matches in 2012.

The reason behind Nadal withdrawing from Miami last season was his fitness. He had not recovered from that famous knee injury. Federer was fit though, but, he had taken some time off the game at that point of time and thus, he hadn’t participated in the tournament.

With both these superstars back, the upcoming edition of Miami Masters is anticipated to be a big success. After quite some time, Federer is looking in top form and he would certainly attract big crowd to the playing arena.

Talking to the reporters about the availability of Federer and Nadal yesterday, one of the senior officials of the organizing committee said, “These two players are probably the biggest heroes going around at the moment. So, not having them last year was obviously disappointing and we did suffer a little bit due to that. But, we are absolutely thrilled that they are back for this year. I hope we will have some decent crowd during the matches.”

Apart from the male category, all the top female tennis players are available as well for the Miami Masters 2014. The weather forecast on the match days is not too bad either. So, there would surely be heavy increment in the ticket sales for this year’s tournament.