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Casey Dellacqua has lived up to her newfound seeded status to reach the third round of the US Open for the first time.<\/p>\n
Dellacqua overcome a one-set deficit, some dubious umpiring and 40 unforced errors to defeat Chinese qualifier Qiang Wang 4-6 6-4 6-2 in a major breakthrough for the 29-year-old.<\/p>\n
With her expected third-round opponent, Serbia eighth seed Ana Ivanovic, faltering, Dellacqua\u2019s plucky win presents the West Australian with a big opportunity to make the last 16 at a major for the first time outside of Australia.<\/p>\n
The free-swinging left-hander will play unseeded Karolina Pliskova on Saturday after the Czech upset Ivanovic 7-5 6-4 in their second-round contest earlier on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Pliskova is ranked 10 spots below her, though the world No.42 did beat Dellacqua in straight sets in their only previous meeting last year in Kuala Lumpar.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am not overly surprised she beat Ivanovic, to be honest. I practised with her the other day and she was playing great,\u201d Dellacqua said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am going to have to play really well in the next round to beat her.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I have never been in the third round at the US Open before. I am really excited at 29 to be in the third round and hopefully I can keep it going.\u201d<\/p>\n
Seeded 29th after soaring 152 places up the world rankings in the past 12 months, Dellacqua had been favoured to make light work of Wang.<\/p>\n
But she did anything but, losing the first set and struggling to make inroads on the world No.139\u2032s serve until deep in the second set.<\/p>\n
Dellacqua stood two games away from crashing out of the tournament until, out of nowhere, broke Wang from 30-0 down to snatch the second set.<\/p>\n
Dellacqua did well to recover from being on the wrong end of two controversial line calls in the decider.<\/p>\n
With Wang serving at 1-2 and 15-40 down, Dellacqua appeared to have clinched a vital break only for the chair umpire to call a backhand from the Chinese in that looked well out.<\/p>\n
With no Hawk-Eye available on Court 13, Dellacqua had to suck up her misfortune.<\/p>\n
But she was left livid two points later after having what looked to be a clean winner of her own called out.<\/p>\n
Dellacqua dumped her next service return into the net to lose the game and smashed her racquet into the back fence in frustration.<\/p>\n
But after losing the opening point of her next service game, Dellacqua regrouped to win the longest rally of the match.<\/p>\n
The steadying 27-shot rally proved a turning point, with Dellacqua holding from love-15 down and then breaking Wang to grab a decisive 4-2 advantage.<\/p>\n
She broke Wang for a second time in the set to wrap up the match with a booming off-forehand winner to advance after one hour and 59 minutes.<\/p>\n
Dellacqua said it was probably no coincidence she didn\u2019t drop another game after the two umpiring decisions went against her.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy eyes are not the best, so I never like to complain about line calls,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes, when you are used to playing with Hawk-Eye, it gets frustrating when you play on the outside courts to deal with that.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut it is the same with both players and I guess I was glad to be able to put that behind me and not let that affect me.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was pretty focused to get myself into that match as quickly as I could. It probably made me switch on a bit.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt made me get a bit fired up, get a bit of energy going, get the feet going. It felt good.\u201d<\/p>\n
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