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Sat, 07/26/2014 - 13:24
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Eguchi had to stop her great performance

Baku, July 25 (AzerTAc). The first match of ¼ finals in singles has been played on the sixth day of "Baku Cup 2014. Misa Eguchi, the Japanese player who started playing in the tournament from the qualifying round has demonstrated a spectacular performance. Eguchi defeated such strong opponents as Nicole Melichar (USA) and Amandine Hesse in qualifying matches, No 3 seed of the tournament Magdalena Ribarikova (SVK) in 1/16 finals, and Urszula Radvanska (POL) in 1/8 finals. This time the rival of Misa Eguchi who is No 183 in the world, was a stronger player than her previous opponents - No 2 seed of the tournament, the winner of "Baku Cup 2012" Bojana Jovanovski. Despite Eguchi lacked behind her opponent due to all indicators, she could demonstrate a worthy struggle against her rival in the first set of the match that lasted 2 hours 11 minutes. The Japanese player broke 4 services of her opponent, won the set 6:4 and made the score 1-0. Eguchi started the second set also with a superiority and broke 2 services of Jovanovski thus leading in points 5:2. Nevertheless, since then Jovanovski revived and made a comeback in the match. She started winning points one after another and could hardly win the second set which lasted till the tie-break 7:5. Thus, the winner of the match was identified in the third set. In the third set taking place with the equality of parties each player struggled for each point till the end. The resolute performance of Eguchi facing a strong opponent resulted in frequent applauses of spectators. Notwithstanding with all these, Jovanovski restored her dominance thanks to her experience and started "forcing" her opponent to make mistakes after the points were 3:3. Thus, Bojana Jovanovski finished the set 6:3 and the match 2-1. She will play in semi-finals. Her opponent in the match for passing to the final will be the winner of the match between Stefanie Voegele (SUI) and Shahar Peer (ISR).

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