Just a week ago at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships, Germany's Julia Goerges brought her best tennis to the table and humbled Svetlana Kuznetsova by giving away just one game, 6-0 6-1, in the 55-minute first-round match. This week at the Qatar Total Open in Doha, the two-time Grand Slam champion had a chance for revenge, again in the first round, and she used it to the fullest, comfortably winning the match.
The world No.53 Goerges did start the match with a scare for Kuznetsova, by going up 2-0, but since then the encounter was all about the Russian.