Suarez Cruises Past Kapros to Reach Second Round

Argentina’s Paola Suarez is the best doubles player in the world, but on Sunday afternoon she put her high-caliber singles game on display as she dominated Aniko Kapros of Hungary, 6-1, 6-3, to advance to the second round of the 2004 Acura Classic.

In the last singles match of the day on Stadium Court, the ninth-seeded Suarez, wasted little time in winning the first set in 20 minutes as she broke Kapros’ serve three times.

Kapros only bright spot of the first set was when she broke Suarez at love in the third game.

After losing her serve in the first set, Suarez got her serve back on track and would go on to win 20 of the next 22 points in her service games.

In the second set, the Argentine raced out to a 5-1 lead before Kapros tried to rally by winning 11 of the next 13 points. However, the Hungarian could sustain her momentum as Suarez broke her serve at 5-3 to close out the match in 50 minutes.

• Suarez is ranked 11 in the world.
• Suarez is the number one ranked doubles player in the world.
• Suarez and Virginia Ruano Pascual are seeded first in the 2004 Acura Classic doubles draw.
• Suarez will face the winner of a first-round match between Colombia’s Fabiola Zuluaga and a qualifier.
• Suarez is making her fifth career Acura Classic appearance.
• This year in singles, Suarez reached the semifinals at the French Open and the quarterfinals at Wimbledon.
• Suarez has won 34 career WTA doubles titles.
• Kapros is ranked 64 in the world.
• Kapros was making her Acura Classic debut.
• This was the first career meeting between Kapros and Suarez.
• Kapros won the 2000 Australian Open singles and doubles titles.

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