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Sharapova beats Peng in 4th round
     2015-January-26  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

    SECOND-SEEDED Maria Sharapova is through to the Australian Open quarterfinals after a 6-3, 6-0 win over China’s Peng Shuai yesterday, setting up another Grand Slam meeting with Eugenie Bouchard.

    Peng, playing with her usual two-handed forehand and backhand strokes, broke Sharapova’s serve on her fifth breakpoint chance in the seventh game. But Sharapova won the next two games to take the first set in 39 minutes before dominating the second.

    Sharapova plays Bouchard in the quarterfinals, a replay of their French Open semifinal last year. Sharapova won that match, after dropped the opening set to the Canadian, on the way to winning the title.

    Sharapova also beat Bouchard in the second round of the French in 2013, and has a 3-0 career record against her.

    After serving a double-fault on set point to end the second, Bouchard took a short break before returning to complete a 6-1, 5-7, 6-2 win over No. 42-ranked Irina-Camelia Begu.

    “I gave myself a good, long hard look in the mirror,” Bouchard explained of her brief absence from Rod Laver Arena. “I said, ‘Genie, this is unacceptable.’ I really kind of kicked myself in the butt a little bit.”

    On the men’s side, Rafael Nadal reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Open.

    Nadal’s 7-5, 6-1, 6-4 win over towering Kevin Anderson turned on two games at the end of the first set. Nadal fended off five break points to hold, and then broke the 2.03-meter tall South African’s serve in the next game to go on a roll in his fourth-round encounter. He will next face No. 7 Tomas Berdych, who had a 6-2, 7-6 (3), 6-2 win over local hope Bernard Tomic.

    Nadal, who won the Australian Open in 2009 and lost the finals in 2012 and last year, is coming off an extended injury layoff and says he’s building momentum as he goes — thankful he got through a tough five-setter in the second round against U.S. qualifier Tim Smyczek.

    “The chance to be in the quarterfinals after a tough period of time for me is a fantastic result,” said Nadal. “I was playing better than the days before. I felt myself with better rhythm in the legs, better rhythm with my forehand. The way that I improved my level is not the most important thing; obviously the victory is.”

    Nadal had to laugh in his last game as he tried to ignore a distraction when his water bottles — famously always precisely placed near the side of the court either for routine or superstition — tumbled over and a ball boy repositioned them. “Seriously it’s not bothering me,” he said.

    Five-time Grand Slam winner Sharapova, coming off a win in the season-opening tournament in Brisbane, had a hiccup in the second round here when she had to save match points against Russian qualifier Alexandra Panova.

    In the other quarter of the draw, No. 10 Ekaterina Makarova had a 6-3, 6-2 win over Julia Goerges to reach the last eight, where she’ll play the winner of a later match between No. 3 Simona Halep and Yanina Wickmayer.

    (SD-Agencies)

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