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Sam Stosur snapped a seven-match losing streak with a resounding performance against Dominika Cibulkova on Monday night to reach the second round of the Sydney International.
Playing under lights at Ken Rosewall Arena, Stosur recovered to win 3-6 6-3 6-4 after fellow Australian Alex De Minaur had wrapped up a straight-sets win over Dusan Lajovic on the same court.
Stosur won her first match since August’s Connecticut Open in New Haven, a victory that extended her head-to-head dominance to 6-2 over Cibulkova.
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This was their first ever match that extended to three sets, and it saw Stosur at her free-swinging, aggressive best; she crunched 15 aces among 44 winners and won 77 per cent of her first-serve points, while Cibulkova managed just 24 winners.
“I’m really happy. I thought I played really well, and as the match went on I got better and better,” Stosur said.
“I thought I served great. Was really confident going into that last game because of all the momentum I felt like I had. Yeah, obviously really pleased.”
Stosur lost her first-round match in Brisbane last week, the fourth time in the past five years she has lost her opening hit-out at the Queensland tournament.
Sydney, however, has proven a happier hunting ground; Stosur has won five of her past eight matches at Sydney Olympic Park, advancing to the quarterfinals in 2016.