Tough match for Maria in 4th Round at Sony Open Tennis in Miami. Maria defeated Kirsten Flipkens of Belgium in 3 sets: 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 after 2 hours and 4 minutes.
After the match, Maria said: "I usually like playing first match on, but I didn't start off the way I wanted to. Nothing was working in the first set. Yeah, that's just the way it went in the beginning."
"She's a different type of opponent. There aren't too many girls that hit a slice backhand 90% of the time in the rallies. You expect that because she's been around for a long time, and it shouldn't be that much of a surprise, but I wasn't doing too much from my end and made a lot of mistakes from the first ball, which gives your opponent that confidence and the time they need to do whatever they want.
"It was about finding that combination of getting something in to give her something to play with."
In quarterfinals, Maria will play against Petra Kvitova of Czech Republic. On head to head, Maria leads Kvitova: 4-2. Their last match was in 2012 at Roland Garros, where Maria won in straight sets: 6-3, 6-3.
GO MARIA !!!
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