{"id":7132,"date":"2014-03-19T08:24:51","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T08:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=7132"},"modified":"2014-03-19T08:24:51","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T08:24:51","slug":"tennis-shvedova-sets-up-miami-clash-with-serena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=7132","title":{"rendered":"Tennis – Shvedova sets up Miami clash with Serena"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kazakhstan’s Yaroslava Shvedova<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kazakhstan’s Yaroslava Shvedova beat former French Open champion Francesca Schiavone 6-4 6-2 at the Sony Open, earning a second-round meeting with world number one Serena Williams.<\/p>\n

The world number 59 broke the Italian to take the first set and broke again to move ahead 3-1 in the second before recording one final break to close out the contest and collect her first win in four meetings with the 2010 French Open champion.<\/p>\n

Schiavone, the first Italian woman to win a Grand Slam, has been in miserable form losing seven consecutive first-round matches before ending the barren stretch last week at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells.<\/p>\n

Shvedova, whose only career WTA Tour win came seven years ago in Bangalore, has lost all three meetings with Williams but did push the six-times Miami champion to three sets during a round of 16 meeting at the 2012 Wimbledon.<\/p>\n

The upset of the day went to 20-year-old Monica Puig<\/a> who dispatched 36th ranked Magdalena Rybarikova<\/a> of Slovakia<\/a>, a four-times winner on the WTA Tour, 6-1 7-6 (9-7).<\/p>\n

It was the second match win of the season for the 58th ranked Puerto Rican.<\/p>\n

The tournament began on a down note for the home contingent with American Bethanie Mattek-Sands falling 6-3 3-6 6-3 to Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina.<\/p>\n

Sony Open results<\/strong><\/p>\n

First round<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Anna Karolina Schmiedlova (Slovakia<\/a>) beat Indy de Vroome (Netherlands) 7-5 5-7 6-2<\/p>\n

Alisa Kleybanova (Russia) beat Iveta Melzer (Czech Republic) 7-6(3) 6-1<\/p>\n

Chanelle Scheepers (South Africa) beat Silvia Soler Espinosa (Spain) 6-3 6-0<\/p>\n

Varvara Lepchenko (U.S.) beat Yanina Wickmayer (Belgium) 7-5 6-1<\/p>\n

Monica Puig<\/a> (Puerto Rico) beat Magdalena Rybarikova<\/a> (Slovakia) 6-1 7-6(7)<\/p>\n

Casey Dellacqua (Australia) beat Stefanie Voegele (Switzerland) 6-3 6-2<\/p>\n

Romina Oprandi (Switzerland) beat Bojana Jovanovski (Serbia) 6-2 6-4<\/p>\n

Yaroslava Shvedova<\/a> (Kazakhstan) beat Francesca Schiavone (Italy) 6-4 6-2<\/p>\n

Kurumi Nara (Japan) beat Annika Beck (Germany) 7-6(2) 6-4<\/p>\n

Caroline Garcia (France) beat Aleksandra Wozniak (Canada) 6-3 7-5<\/p>\n

Elina Svitolina (Ukraine) beat Bethanie Mattek-Sands (U.S.) 6-3 3-6 6-3<\/p>\n

Tsvetana Pironkova (Bulgaria) beat Galina Voskoboeva (Kazakhstan) 6-2 7-5<\/p>\n

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Source: Eurosports<\/p>\n

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