Different strokes, same result
Different strokes, same result 
From Steve Ginsburg in New York
Former Australian Captain August 31, 2007
FORMER champion Martina Hingis and Svetlana Kuznetsova took different paths to the third round of the US Open today (AEST).
Hingis sliced, lobbed and chipped her way to a 6-2 7-5 win over Pauline Parmentier, while Kuznetsova employed power tennis in a 6-3 4-6 6-0 victory over Camille Pin.
“You try to mix it up, to give the opponent a different look every time,” said Hingis, who won the tournament a decade ago. “I think the crowd enjoyed it, too.”
Kuznetsova had a 46-6 edge in winners over her French opponent and a 34-9 advantage in unforced errors.
“I missed so many of my chances,” she said. “I’ve been missing so much. I was not moving my feet. But still I knew I was comfortable. I’ll get it all together.”
Hingis was broken three times in the second set but returned the favour to her French opponent four times.
In the third round, the Swiss will play 18-year-old Belarusian, Victoria Azarenka, ranked 41st in the world.
“I don’t feel like I can underestimate anybody out there,” said Hingis said. “Any opponent on a given day can come out and beat you.”
After losing the second set to Pin, Kuznetsova needed only 23 minutes to win the final set and close out the match.
“It’s not good second set, for sure,” said Kuznetsova, the 2004 Open champion. “Well, when it happened, it happened. It was too late to change something.
“So I said, ‘Nothing you can change.’ So from that moment I just started to turn it on and just play the right shots.”
Reuters