Russian Anna Kalinskaya needs to review her successful matches at the Australian Open and Dubai tournaments in order to act more confidently in the French Open matches. Former world third racket, bronze medalist of the 2012 Olympics and founder of the children’s tennis school Nadezhda Petrova told socialbites.ca.
“The match with Burel was more difficult for Kalinskaya, I did not expect it. He broke the first set and won the second set 7:5. For me this is an alarm bell; Anna needs to recover and not give her rivals a chance. Perhaps he should reevaluate his matches at the Australian Open or in Dubai, where he played boldly, actively and with a backhand. It seems to me that he is not active enough at the moment. He should play as a number one more,” says Petrova.
The expert also talked about Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova’s victory in the first round match at Roland Garros.
“In the first round, Pavlyuchenkova met a girl who was a lucky loser who lost in the qualifying rounds. Nastya had no problems here, she handled it easily,” said Petrova.
Kalinskaya, who defeated the host Clara Burel with scores of 7:6 (7:3) and 7:5, will face Canadian Bianca Andreescu in the next round. While Pavlyuchenkova defeated Italian Panna Udvardi with sets of 6:3 and 6:4, the Russian athlete’s next opponent will be Romanian representative Ana Bogdan.
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