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Kandarr surprises Mauresmo

French Open, Roland Garros, Paris, May 2001

The match began slowly before a huge, expectant crowd, composed largely of Mauresmo supporters. Jana took the first game on serve. Mauresmo seemed listless but won her first service game. So far there had been far more errors than winners on both sides of the net.

In the third game Jana started serving better, getting two service winners and then an ace on her second serve. Mauresmo's serving seemed weak, and Jana was able to make plays on most of her serves, returning well, and coming to the net. This way she broke Amelie in the fourth game to lead 3:1.

Despite an attacking fifth game from Jana, mistakes in execution led to Mauresmo taking an immediate rebreak. Mauresmo then won her serve easily to equalise at 3:3. Jana was still serving excellently however, hitting another ace and two unreturnable serves to lead 4:3. Mauresmo won her next game. Then at 4:4 Jana's serve went off-line a little and she went down 0-30. She played two good attacking points, one from the baseline and one from the net to even at 30-30. Another unreturnable serve, and a well played point won Jana the game

In the following game Jana fought her way to four set points, but Mauresmo finally struggled clear and won the game. Jana's next service game began with two long rallies, which she stayed in well, and won both. A service winner and a short rally completed a love game to lead 6:5. Jana was playing really well now, forcing Mauresmo into testing rallies, and hitting aggressive groundstrokes to all corners of the court. She soon had three more set points. Mauresmo saved the first with an ace, but the French crowd fell quiet as Jana won the next point with a dipping volley to take the first set.

SET TWO

The second set was very different. Amelie was more aggressive and Jana seemed to become nervous. She gave away a lot of points with unforced errors to fall behind 4:0. Everyone was now expecting a third set. But Jana's game seemed to be falling into place once more. She fought hard in the heat to hold her serve in a game of long, testing rallies, bringing the score to 4:1. Amelie then won her serve to lead 5:1. At this point it seemed inevitable that Mauresmo would take the second set and force a decisive third.

But Jana fought the seventh game equally hard to reach 30:30. Then she took the next two points, the last with a serve, volley, and smash, to pull back to 5:2. Amelie had a set point in the next game, but more attacking play from Jana brought her the vital break to 3:5.

In her next service game Jana dominated totally. She sent in two unreturnable serves to Amelie's backhand, followed by an ace and another service-winner to wrap up the game to love in under 50 seconds. Score 4:5. Amelie again served for the set, but her serve was not punishing enough to keep Jana out of the points. Jana defended ably, running from one end of the court to the other to get every ball back in play until she could attack. Varying her play continually, so that Mauresmo never knew what sort of ball to expect next, she won the key points, breaking again to 5:5.

Refusing to let up, Jana served well once more, rushing the net to volley at every opportunity. Again she won her service game to love. The French crowd began to grow alarmed, suddenly realising that Mauresmo had to win this service game to stay in the match. They tried to cheer Amelie on, but Jana held her nerve, attacking every short ball from her opponent to go up love thirty. Amelie then double-faulted to give Jana three match points. Jana took the first of them for a well-earned victory. 7:5 7:5.

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