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Safina overcomes late resistance to advance
MELBOURNE - Dinara Safina overcame a minor stumble when serving for the match before advancing to the third round of the Australian Open with a 6-3 6-4 victory over Barbora Zahlavova Strycova on Wednesday.
The second-ranked Russian controlled the match from the onset against the 67th ranked Czech, although she was forced to stave off four break points in the final game.
Last year’s beaten finalist at Melbourne Park was 0-40 down in the 10th game of the second set but recovered to seal victory in 93 minutes when a strong serve down the middle forced Zahlavov Strycova to hook her return well wide.
Safina will meet Elena Baltacha in the next round after the Briton upset the 30th seeded Ukrainian Kateryna Bondarenko earlier in the day.
“In some moments I played not bad, but it’s good that I win the match and still there is so much room to improve,” Safina told reporters.
“You know, that’s such a good thing (that) you know deep inside you have so much more to bring out.”
“In the next match I can do a little bit more and more, until I don’t find everything on the court.”
Safina said she had made too many errors (45) against the 67th ranked Czech and often berated herself in Russian during the second set.
“Overall I think (there) was too many unforced errors.
“The second set had to be much easier and I complicated myself. Hopefully next match I can do better.”
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