Miami: close match and victory in doubles

The doubles specialist Polish and Croatian player made it hard to the fourth seed Hungarian-Kazakh pair. This also shows that Timi and Svedova could broke the opponent only once.

The 4th seeded duo has led 3:0 in the 31-minute opening set. They won the first two game to 40, so they had a break advantage. Timi and her partner served well, after 3:0 they won their games to 0, to 30, and 5:3 again to 0.

The second set brought a big change. Timi and Shvedova adogatott well for a long time, but as receivers they had no chance. Jans-Ignacik and Jurak lived with that chance.

The Polish-Croatian duo had three set points at 5:4, this time without success. But after 6:5 they broke the opponent easily.

In the tie-break Timi and Shvedova played better. They lost the serve after 4-1, but after that they controlled the match. After 8-5 they finished the tie-break with two serve.

The Hungarian-Kazakh double’s next opponent will be Kiki Bertens (Netherlands, WTA-50th)  and Johanna Larsson (Sweden, WTA-47th) or Casey Dellacqua (Australia, WTA 5th) and Samantha Stosur (Australia, WTA-107th).