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Mauresmo into last eight at Wimbledon
Third seed Amelie Mauresmo reached the Wimbledon quarter-finals on Monday with a 6-4, 6-0 win over Elena Likhovtseva of Russia.
Third seed Amelie Mauresmo reached the Wimbledon quarter-finals for the second straight year on Monday with a 6-4, 6-0 win over Elena
Likhovtseva
of Russia.
The French woman will now play the winner of the all-Russian tie between Anastasia Myskina and Elena Dementieva.
Mauresmo lost narrowly to Serena Williams in the last four last year, and has been growing in confidence once again this year dropping just 11 games in her first three ties.
But she got off to a troubling start against Likhovtseva, a semi-finalist in the French Open earlier this month.The Russian opened up a 2-0 lead before Mauresmo broke back to level at 2-2.
Likhovtseva then rattled off eight points in a row to lead 4-2 as Mauresmo struggled to find her timing and confidence.
But the 25-year-old stuck to her task and piece by piece her game came together as she won the next four games in a row to take the set 6-4 sealing it with an easy forehand volley into an empty court.
That seemed to lift the weight of the Mauresmo shoulders and she raced through the second set 6-0 with the 29-year-old Likhovtseva having no answer to her opponent's powerful all-court game.
