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Belinda Bencic (left) found no remedy for Estonian Anett Kontaveit.
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For the Swiss, the Australian Open is over after the third round.
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Bencic quarrels with himself.
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Anett Kontaveit is in the round of 16.
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This is called a veritable false start! Aninda Kontaveit still holds four points until 30:30 in her third appearance on the second largest square, the Margaret Court Arena. Then this third round match will be a terribly one-sided affair: After 20 minutes, the 22-year-old from Eastern Switzerland, who started here in Melbourne with high ambitions, will face the maximum penalty: 0: 6!
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What’s going on Four winners face ten mistakes from world number 7 – the 24-year-old Estonian on the other side of the net can do what she wants: she succeeds. Kontaveit seems to have caught one of those days when nothing can go wrong. It serves as if from a single cast, plays close to the lines, returns unbelievably courageous, in short: Belinda powers up and down.
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At least one honor counter
Everything is going too fast for them. It is her first meeting with Kontaveit, who was ranked 14th in the world rankings last April. She doesn’t have time to get to know her opponent’s game and find the remedy for the pressure. She doesn’t even have the opportunity to get excited about what is happening and to let the frustration out. She knows that she can’t do much against this almost perfectly playing, punchy opponent – except to hope that her thread breaks at some point.
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Unfortunately, that is not the case. After nine games lost, the Swiss woman is granted an honor counter. But more than a brutal 1: 6 does not look out in the end. After 47 minutes, she fends off the first match ball. After 49 minutes, Belinda left the stadium slapped and suffered one of the most brutal defeats in her career (only once in 2014 she won 0: 6, 0: 6 in her first duel with Caroline Wozniacki).
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Belinda looks calm when she later tries to explain what happened. Your information does not reveal any new information. The way it looked, it was also: “I felt completely overwhelmed.” She actually felt good in training. When she left the place, she was overwhelmed and at a loss. «I started poorly, built up self-confidence until 0: 3, 0: 4 Kontaveits. And after that I just didn’t have time to make it up to you. I tried to fight, but it didn’t work for me. I looked at the clock, saw how fast it went and then hoped at least for a game. But this will make you even more tense. When an opponent plays like this, there isn’t much you can do. »
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“I am extremely disappointed”
To look forward with the head raised. “I am logically disappointed,” said Belinda, who will resume training after a two or three day break and is very much looking forward to the upcoming Fed Cup in Biel. «But I’m definitely more composed than before. Because I know that I certainly didn’t play my best tennis in the first two matches, but I played okay. And that if I do the right things, things will go forward. »A defeat like that doesn’t totally knock them out,« in the next match it can be the other way round. »
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Even back in 2014, when Caroline Wozniacki caught her 6-0, 6-0 in Istanbul in Istanbul, people would have worriedly asked if everything was okay with her. This is simply part of it. “There are days in an athlete’s life.” Perhaps it would be somehow easier to hide such a clear bankruptcy. «A defeat may be more bitter if you had a chance. I didn’t have one today. »
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