Not often a player earns three more breaks than her opponent and still loses the match, but that's exactly what happened to #7 Vera Zvonareva in the third round of Cincinnati vs. Daniela Hantuchova. Zvonareva won 18 games to Hantuchova's 14, yet walked away the loser.
The match took an incredible 2 hours and 50 minutes, yet included a 6-0 set, which perhaps is as much a testament to Hantuchova's ability to slow down matches as anything. God only knows how much longer this match could have been if every set had been competitive.
One last head scratching stat from this match: Zvonareva won eighteen games in the match, which is two more games than Hantuchova had won in the pair's previous four matches combined.
Hantuchova's last six wins have all been three-setters, all but one of which took over two-and-a-half hours.
The WTA, there's nothing quite like it...
over 2 years ago
Ben Rothenberg
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