Australia’s Jessica Moore showed great determination to come back from 5-2 down in the third set to clinch a quarter-finals spot in the 2010 McDonalds Burnie International.
The third seed, Moore took the first set 6-3 and was looking good, but her opponent Kristyna Pliskova of the Czech Republic hit back in the second taking it 6-4 and looked like causing an upset when leading 5-2 in the third. Moore dug deep to reel off the next five games to complete a stunning comeback.
Second seed, Arina Rodionova of Russia was ruthless in her second round match against Australian Alenka Hubacek only conceding the one game in her 6-1 6-0 victory. Rodionova will now face Zi Yan of China in the quarter-finals after Yan won her second round match against Hungary’s Timea Babos. All sets were one sided with Yan taking the first set 6-0, then Babos took control in the second winning it 6-1. Yan then steadied in the third to clinch the set and the match 6-1.
Australian qualifier, Alison Bai continued her great run at the tournament when she took out the number six seed Erika Sema of Japan in three sets. Bai comeback from a set down to register a 2-6 7-5 6-1 victory and progress to the quarter-finals where she will play the winner out of the Jarmilla Groth and Sally Peers contest.
Groth and Peers were locked at a set all when the match was delayed due to rain. The match will be completed on Friday starting at 11.00am AEDT.
Other winners in the second round were Chinese Taipei’s I-Hsuan Hwang who defeated Remi Tezuka of Japan 7-5 6-0. Hwang will now meet number eight seed, Chiaki Okadaue of Japan who progressed to the next round after defeating Danielle Brown of Great Britian 6-2 6-4.
Cagla Buyukakcay, the seventh seed from Turkey was too good for qualifier Tamara Curovic of Serbia winning 6-3 6-4 and will meet Jessica Moore in the quarter-finals.