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The second round at Wimbledon 2015 continues this evening when Australian Casey Dellacqua takes on 17th seed from the Ukraine Elina Svitolina in what should prove to be an interesting match up.
Join The Roar from around 10:30pm (AEST) for live scores and commentary of this match following the all Aussie duel between Sam Groth and James Duckworth on court 17.
In the first round Dellacqua recorded a powerful victory in straight sets, only dropping four games. It was a dominant display from Dellacqua. She served strongly and never let her opponent, Tamira Paszek, into the match.
Her second-round match will be against a much higher-ranked opponent in 17th seed Elina Svitolina, and she will have to play another crushing game to have a chance of moving into the third round.
Svitolina had a first round match up against Misaki Doi from Japan and was taken all the way to three sets. It wasn’t a dominating performance from a much higher-ranked player and she will probably need to improve from that performance when she takes on Dellacqua, particularly if she plays like she did in the first round of the greatest grand slam of them all.
In saying that, Dellacqua was in less than impressive form leading up to Wimbledon, losing a whole series of games on grass courts that she should have realistically been winning. So it will be interesting now to see how she performs as she comes up against a much stronger opponent. The fanatics will most certainly be court side for this one as well, with the Groth versus Duckworth game before it. That could become a factor.
The pair have a vast difference in levels of Wimbledon experience with Svitolina never getting herself out of the first round in two attempts whilst Dellacqua is a former quarter finalist in the event.
Svitolina, despite this, is still the 17th seed and a part of this was because of a quarter final appearance at the French Open earlier in the year.
Svitolina, however, has had almost non existent form in between the end of her French Open campaign and the beginning of her Wimbledon campaign only playing in the one game which came in Eastbourne against Heather Watson, ranked 59th in the world. She went down in three sets in that one and doesn’t look to be in the greatest form after taking three sets to finish Doi off in her first round match.
Svitolina’s worst surface is grass with under a 50% winning percentage throughout her career.
Prediction: Svitolina is not in the greatest of form and Dellacqua after the first round looks to be having all guns blazing. I’m going to go for the upset here.
Dellacqua in three sets.
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