No. 73 ranked Arantxa Rus from The Netherlands defeated last year’s US Open champion, 5th seeded Samantha Stosur of Australia 6-2, 0-6, 6-4 in round 2 of the 2012 Wimbledon Championships.
Wimbledon has not been Samantha’s best Grand Slam. It is the only one at which she has a losing record, and she had fallen in the 1st round the last two years. This year she cruised through her first round match against No. 38 ranked Carla Suárez Navarro of Spain 6-1, 6-3. Some thought this might be a better year for her, but it didn’t turn out that way. Samantha is now 6-19 at Wimbledon and 49-26 at the other Slams combined.
There are now no Australian men or women left in the tournament.
In the match, Arantxa hit 11 winners (2 aces) with 20 unforced errors (5 double faults) while scoring on 6 of the 8 break points she reached against Samantha and totaling 77 points in the match. Samantha hit 20 winners (1 ace) with 24 errors (4 DFs) while converting 6 of the 16 break points she reached against Arantxa and totaling 86 points.
Arantxa will now face 30th seed, Peng Shuai of China on Friday in the 3rd round.
