Martina Hingis Rolls Into The Second Round

Swiss Martina Hingis recovered from a set down, to beat Chinese Shuai Peng, in their rain-delayed first-round match at the US Open, 4-6, 6-1, 6-3, in one hour and fifty-three minutes.Hingis is seeking a decent finish in this year’s edition of the US Open, at Flushing Meadows in New York.
In the first round, Hingis was committing unforced errors one after the other. Serving for the set at 5-3, Peng was poised to take the first set. Alas, Hingis broke her serve, reducing Peng’s lead to just a game, at 5-4. Peng proved to be a hard nut to crack as she broke Hingis’ serve, winning the first set, 6-4, in forty-nine minutes.
Finding her rhythm in the last two sets of the first game, fuelled Hingis’ charge, by winning the first two games to lead the second set at 2-0. Peng then held her serve in the third game, pushing the scoreboard to 2-1. Hingis then won the next four games to push the match into a third deciding set, 6-1, in just twenty-seven minutes.
With the momentum from the second set still intact, Hingis fought ferociously for every point, holding her serve and never allowing Peng to break her serve. In the fourth game, Hingis’ perseverance and patience paid off as she broke Peng’s serve to lead the third set at 3-1. In the succeeding four games, Peng and Hingis traded breaks then held their serves, pushing the score to 5-3 with Hingis maintaining her lead. Hingis then held her serve in the ninth game, taking the third set, 6-3, and the match, 4-6, 6-1, 6-3, in a grueling one-hour fifty-three-minute battle.
Hingis fights Virginie Razzano in the second round in Thursday’s featured night match. Hingis has a 2-0 lead in their career head-to-head wins.