The Erakovic Star Continues To Shine

Nothing sets a tournament alight better than a local player winning and winning….and winning. Shining Kiwi star Marina Erakovic has done that for three days in a row at the ASB Classic by displaying a new-found maturity in her game which now allows her to go toe-to-toe with the very best. While her all-round game is several notches up from what she showed at the ASB Tennis Centre a year ago when she reached the second round of the Sovereign Singles, it is her mental approach which shows the greatest improvement and is now the key to her success. That, and a serve not out of place at this higher level. Against former world top 10 Vera Zvonareva, and riding the wave of unbridled support from the capacity Centre Court crowd, Erakovic turned in the match of her life to book her place in the exulted last four of this year’s... [read full story]