World No 5 Victoria Azarenka extended her winning streak to 16 matches with a comfortable 6-3, 6-2 victory over France’s Alize Cornet to reach the third round of the Madrid Open yesterday
Petra Kvitova and Azarenka
Madrid: World No 5 Victoria Azarenka extended her winning streak to 16 matches with a comfortable 6-3, 6-2 victory over France’s Alize Cornet to reach the third round of the Madrid Open yesterday.
Petra Kvitova
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The Belarussian clinched her last two tournaments at Indian Wells and Miami and is the favourite to land her first title in Madrid.
Azarenka
Azarenka raced into a 4-1 first set lead against World No 48 Cornet and, despite a blip dropping serve for the only time in the match for 4-2, broke once more to seal the set 6-3. The second set was even more straight forward for the two-time Grand Slam champion as two breaks of serve sealed victory in just under 90 minutes on court.
Defending champion Petra Kvitova remained on course for a quarter-final showdown with Azarenka with a 6-3, 6-3 win over Russian Elena Vesnina.